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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
NRA 9522

See Annual Return 2000
2
1858-1915: notebooks, letters and papers
Science Museum Library and Archives
NRA 9524 Science Museum
3
1858-83: laboratory books (6)
Science Museum Library and Archives
See Annual Return 1997
4
1885-1915: letters (24) to Henry Armstrong
Imperial College Archives and Corporate Records Unit
NRA 11420 Armstrong
5
1871-78: letters to CH Gimingham, assistant
Science Museum Library and Archives
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
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
10
1862-99: corresp with Sir George Stokes (168 items)
Cambridge University Library: Department of Manuscripts and University Archives
NRA 20700 Stokes
11
1876-1916: letters (22) to SP Thompson
Imperial College Archives and Corporate Records Unit
NRA 11421 Thompson
12
1871-1911: letters (10) to Alfred Russel Wallace
British Library, Manuscript Collections