Sir William Crookes was an English chemist and physicist who attended the Royal College of Chemistry, now part of Imperial College London, and worked on spectroscopy. He was a pioneer of vacuum tubes,
Crookes in 1906
Blue plaque, 7 Kensington Park Gardens, London
The element thallium, discovered by Crookes
The mineral crookesite, a selenide of copper, thallium and silver (Cu 7(Tl, Ag)Se 4), named for Crookes