William Crookes (1832-1919) and the commercialization of science
By: William H. Brock.
Series: Science, technology and culture, 1700-1945
Publisher: Ashgate Pub. Company
Published: 2007
Place of publication: Burlington, VT
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9780754663225
Subjects: Crookes, William, -- Sir, -- 1832-1919; Scientists -- Great Britain -- Biography; Chemists -- Great Britain -- Biography; Inventors -- Great Britain -- Biography
Genres: Biography.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: title: A tailor's son; title: Photographic chemist; title: Earning a living; title: Thallium; title: Carbolic and cattle plague; title: Selling science, 1865-75; title: Spiritualism; title: Mysterious forces; title: Chemistry is strictly a science of precision; title: The investigation of Florence Cook, 1872-74; title: Scandal: the investigations of Annie Eva Fay and Rosina Showers; title: The radiometer and its lessons: William Carpenter versus William Crookes; title: Dark spaces and the fourth state of matter; title: Ubi crux ibi lux; title: The commercialization of public health: water; title: The commercialization of public health: adulteration, sewage and hygiene; title: Radiant spectroscopy; title: Esoteric chemistry in the nineties; title: Inert gases and transmutations; title: The wheat problem; title: Radioactivity; title: Welsh gold and African diamonds; title: The grand old man of chemical physics, 1907-1913; title: The final years, 1913-1919; title: The afterlife.