An English chemist who was inducted into the elite Royal Society at the age of only 31. Shortly after, Crooke’s brother died at sea; consumed by grief, Crookes embraced the fad of spiritualism and even attempted to make a scientific argument for the plausibility of communicating with the dead. He later renounced spiritualism.
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Chapter 15: An Element of Madness
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Unlike Crookes, or the megalodon hunters, or Pons and Fleischmann, Röntgen labored heroically to fit his findings in with known physics. He didn’t want to be revolutionary.
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William Crookes Quotes in The Disappearing Spoon
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Chapter 15: An Element of Madness
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Unlike Crookes, or the megalodon hunters, or Pons and Fleischmann, Röntgen labored heroically to fit his findings in with known physics. He didn’t want to be revolutionary.
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