Quo Fuit places 4 dated presences for William Crookes across 4 places, from 1832 to 1867.
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Sir William Crookes (17 June 1832 – 4 April 1919) was an English chemist and physicist who attended the Royal College of Chemistry, now part of Imperial College London, and worked on spectroscopy.Wikipedia, full article · CC BY-SA
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1832year
Londonattested“William Crookes was born in London in 1832, the eldest of eight surviving children (eight others died young) of Joseph Crookes (1792–1889), a wealthy tailor and real estate investor of north-country origin, and his second wife, Mary (née…”source: Wikipedia: William Crookes
1848year
Royal College of Chemistryattested“In 1848, at age 16, Crookes entered the Royal College of Chemistry (now the Imperial College chemistry department) to study organic chemistry.”source: Wikipedia: William Crookes
1867year
Cubaattested“Crookes was possibly influenced by the death of his younger brother Philip in 1867 at 21 from yellow fever contracted while he was on an expedition to lay a telegraph cable from Cuba to Florida.”source: Wikipedia: William Crookes
1867year
Floridaattested“Crookes was possibly influenced by the death of his younger brother Philip in 1867 at 21 from yellow fever contracted while he was on an expedition to lay a telegraph cable from Cuba to Florida.”source: Wikipedia: William Crookes
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1854year
Radcliffe Observatorymentioned“He worked with Manuel Johnson at the Radcliffe Observatory in Oxford in 1854, where he adapted the recent innovation of wax paper photography to machines built by Francis Ronalds to continuously record meteorological parameters.”source: Wikipedia: William Crookes
1854year
Oxfordmentioned“He worked with Manuel Johnson at the Radcliffe Observatory in Oxford in 1854, where he adapted the recent innovation of wax paper photography to machines built by Francis Ronalds to continuously record meteorological parameters.”source: Wikipedia: William Crookes
1855year
Chester Diocesan Training Collegementioned“In 1855 he was appointed lecturer in chemistry at the Chester Diocesan Training College.”source: Wikipedia: William Crookes
1855year
Chestermentioned“In 1855 he was appointed lecturer in chemistry at the Chester Diocesan Training College.”source: Wikipedia: William Crookes
February 1875month
Londonmentioned“In a series of experiments in London, England at the house of Crookes in February 1875, the medium Anna Eva Fay managed to fool Crookes into believing she had genuine psychic powers.”source: Wikipedia: William Crookes
1886year
American Philosophical Societymentioned“In 1886, Crookes was elected as a member to the American Philosophical Society.”source: Wikipedia: William Crookes
31 January 1895exact date
Royal Societymentioned“On 31 January 1895 they made a full report to the Royal Society on the new gas, argon.”source: Wikipedia: William Crookes
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