caption death_date death_place influenced birth_place awards nationality field birth_date known_for image article_title name
sir william crookes in 1906 4 april 1919 london , england j. k. f. zöllner london , england royal -rrb- albert medal -lrb- 1899 -rrb- copley medal -lrb- 1904 medal -rrb- elliott cresson medal -lrb- 1912 -rrb- -lrb- 1875 -rrb- davy medal -lrb- 1888 british physical chemistry 17 june 1832 thallium sir william crookes 1906.jpg william crookes
 sir william crookes
william crookes

sir william crookes , om , frs -lrb- 17 june 1832 -- 4 april 1919 -rrb- was a british chemist and physicist who attended the royal college of chemistry , london , and worked on spectroscopy .
he was a pioneer of vacuum tubes , inventing the crookes tube which was made in 1875 .
crookes was the inventor of the crookes radiometer , which today is made and sold as a novelty item .
