Crookes, Sir William, (1832-1919), Knight Chemist

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Surname:	Crookes
Pretitle:	Sir
Forenames:	William
Gender:	Male
Date:	1832-1919
Biography:	ODNB link for Crookes, Sir William (1832-1919) Knight Chemist
Name authority reference:	GB/NNAF/P133105 (Former ISAAR ref: GB/NNAF/P7039 )
Online related resources	Bibliography of British and Irish History link for Sir William Crookes

Collections
Number	Description	Held by	Reference	Further information
1	1881-c1923: laboratory notebooks, papers rel to him, incl missing chapters from EE Fournier D'Albe's biography	Royal Institution of Great Britain	William Crookes Collection	NRA 9522 See Annual Return 2000
2	1858-1915: notebooks, letters and papers	Science Museum Library and Archives	NCUACS	NRA 9524 Science Museum
3	1858-83: laboratory books (6)	Science Museum Library and Archives	MS 408, MS 410	See Annual Return 1997
4	1885-1915: letters (24) to Henry Armstrong	Imperial College Archives and Corporate Records Unit	Armstrong	NRA 11420 Armstrong
5	1871-78: letters to CH Gimingham, assistant	Science Museum Library and Archives	MS 409	See Annual Return 1997
6	1885-1916: corresp with Sir Oliver Lodge (56 items)	Society for Psychical Research		NRA 11857
7	1895-1919: corresp with Oswald John Silberrad	Science Museum Library and Archives	MSS A.46; A.148-189; B.1326-7; E.5-286 Passim	NRA 43177
8	letters to Royal Society	Royal Society		See HMC MS papers of British scientists 1600-1940, 1982
9	1850-1914: letters to John Spiller	Wellcome Library	MS 5151
10	1862-99: corresp with Sir George Stokes (168 items)	Cambridge University Library: Department of Manuscripts and University Archives	Add 7342, 7656	NRA 20700 Stokes
11	1876-1916: letters (22) to SP Thompson	Imperial College Archives and Corporate Records Unit	SP Thompson	NRA 11421 Thompson
12	1871-1911: letters (10) to Alfred Russel Wallace	British Library, Manuscript Collections	Add MSS 46437-42 passim