1832 - 1919
Sir William Crookes (; 17 June 1832 – 4 April 1919) was a British 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, inventing the Crookes tube which was made in 1875. Read more on Wikipedia
Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of William Crookes has received more than 453,314 page views. His biography is available in 54 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 51 in 2019). William Crookes is the 45th most popular chemist (down from 41st in 2019), the 327th most popular biography from United Kingdom (up from 338th in 2019) and the 6th most popular British Chemist.
William Crookes was a British chemist and physicist who is most famous for his invention of the Crookes tube, which was the first cathode ray tube.
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Among chemists, William Crookes ranks 45 out of 509. Before him are Gertrude B. Elion, Henrik Dam, Ilya Prigogine, Frederick Soddy, Victor Grignard, and Theodor Svedberg. After him are Gerty Cori, Paul Karrer, Joseph Black, Francis William Aston, Tu Youyou, and Julius Lothar Meyer.
1918 - 1999
HPI: 68.13
Rank: 39
1895 - 1976
HPI: 68.09
Rank: 40
1917 - 2003
HPI: 67.97
Rank: 41
1877 - 1956
HPI: 67.72
Rank: 42
1871 - 1935
HPI: 67.72
Rank: 43
1884 - 1971
HPI: 67.67
Rank: 44
1832 - 1919
HPI: 67.56
Rank: 45
1896 - 1957
HPI: 67.52
Rank: 46
1889 - 1971
HPI: 67.48
Rank: 47
1728 - 1799
HPI: 67.10
Rank: 48
1877 - 1945
HPI: 67.08
Rank: 49
1930 - Present
HPI: 66.97
Rank: 50
1830 - 1895
HPI: 66.87
Rank: 51
Among people born in 1832, William Crookes ranks 9. Before him are Wilhelm Wundt, Lewis Carroll, Nikolaus Otto, Maximilian I of Mexico, Gustave Doré, and Edward Burnett Tylor. After him are Louisa May Alcott, Ivan Shishkin, Adolf Erik Nordenskiöld, José Echegaray, George, King of Saxony, and Jules Ferry. Among people deceased in 1919, William Crookes ranks 14. Before him are Alfred Werner, Emiliano Zapata, Gojong of Korea, John William Strutt, 3rd Baron Rayleigh, Andrew Carnegie, and Ruggero Leoncavallo. After him are Carl Larsson, Yakov Sverdlov, Archduke Ludwig Viktor of Austria, Princess Charlotte of Prussia, Grand Duke Paul Alexandrovich of Russia, and Habibullah Khan.
1832 - 1920
HPI: 77.34
Rank: 3
1832 - 1898
HPI: 77.31
Rank: 4
1832 - 1891
HPI: 74.92
Rank: 5
1832 - 1867
HPI: 74.45
Rank: 6
1832 - 1883
HPI: 73.35
Rank: 7
1832 - 1917
HPI: 69.65
Rank: 8
1832 - 1919
HPI: 67.56
Rank: 9
1832 - 1888
HPI: 67.45
Rank: 10
1832 - 1898
HPI: 65.58
Rank: 11
1832 - 1901
HPI: 65.20
Rank: 12
1832 - 1916
HPI: 64.02
Rank: 13
1832 - 1904
HPI: 63.64
Rank: 14
1832 - 1893
HPI: 63.41
Rank: 15
1866 - 1919
HPI: 70.70
Rank: 8
1879 - 1919
HPI: 70.52
Rank: 9
1852 - 1919
HPI: 69.96
Rank: 10
1842 - 1919
HPI: 69.62
Rank: 11
1835 - 1919
HPI: 69.04
Rank: 12
1857 - 1919
HPI: 69.00
Rank: 13
1832 - 1919
HPI: 67.56
Rank: 14
1853 - 1919
HPI: 66.91
Rank: 15
1885 - 1919
HPI: 65.22
Rank: 16
1842 - 1919
HPI: 64.69
Rank: 17
1860 - 1919
HPI: 63.68
Rank: 18
1860 - 1919
HPI: 63.06
Rank: 19
1872 - 1919
HPI: 62.98
Rank: 20
Among people born in United Kingdom, William Crookes ranks 327 out of 7,765. Before him are Syd Barrett (1946), Jacqueline Bisset (1944), Jon Lord (1941), Æthelred I, King of Wessex (837), George Eliot (1819), and G. K. Chesterton (1874). After him are Dante Gabriel Rossetti (1828), Llywelyn ap Gruffudd (1220), Ian McShane (1942), Rudolf Abel (1903), Gertrude Bell (1868), and Anne, Princess Royal (1950).
1946 - 2006
HPI: 67.72
Rank: 321
1944 - Present
HPI: 67.69
Rank: 322
1941 - 2012
HPI: 67.69
Rank: 323
837 - 871
HPI: 67.60
Rank: 324
1819 - 1880
HPI: 67.58
Rank: 325
1874 - 1936
HPI: 67.56
Rank: 326
1832 - 1919
HPI: 67.56
Rank: 327
1828 - 1882
HPI: 67.54
Rank: 328
1220 - 1282
HPI: 67.54
Rank: 329
1942 - Present
HPI: 67.53
Rank: 330
1903 - 1971
HPI: 67.52
Rank: 331
1868 - 1926
HPI: 67.52
Rank: 332
1950 - Present
HPI: 67.51
Rank: 333
Among chemists born in United Kingdom, William Crookes ranks 6. Before him are John Dalton (1766), Humphry Davy (1778), William Ramsay (1852), Frederick Sanger (1918), and Frederick Soddy (1877). After him are Francis William Aston (1877), Frederick Gowland Hopkins (1861), Norman Haworth (1883), John Newlands (1837), Henry Hallett Dale (1875), and Robert Robinson (1886).
1766 - 1844
HPI: 81.13
Rank: 1
1778 - 1829
HPI: 71.43
Rank: 2
1852 - 1916
HPI: 68.58
Rank: 3
1918 - 2013
HPI: 68.29
Rank: 4
1877 - 1956
HPI: 67.72
Rank: 5
1832 - 1919
HPI: 67.56
Rank: 6
1877 - 1945
HPI: 67.08
Rank: 7
1861 - 1947
HPI: 65.66
Rank: 8
1883 - 1950
HPI: 64.17
Rank: 9
1837 - 1898
HPI: 63.85
Rank: 10
1875 - 1968
HPI: 63.84
Rank: 11
1886 - 1975
HPI: 63.82
Rank: 12