William Crookes (June 17, 1832 - April 4, 1919) was an English chemist, physicist and spectroscopist. In 1861, he discovered a previously unknown element with a bright green emission line in its spectrum and named the element thallium. In 1895, he identified the first known sample of helium.

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William Crookes, English Chemist and Physicist

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