Its earliest members included noted scientists like William Crookes, and philosophers such as Henry Sidgwick and William James.

By the 1870s, British physicist William Crookes and others were able to evacuate tubes to a lower pressure, below 10 < sup >− 6 </ sup > atm.

It was invented in 1873 by the chemist Sir William Crookes as the by-product of some chemical research.

These samples were identified as helium by Lockyer and British physicist William Crookes.

* 1832 – William Crookes, English physicist and chemist ( d. 1919 )

In 1900, William Crookes isolated protactinium as an intensely radioactive material from uranium ; however, he could not characterize it as a new chemical element and thus named it uranium-X.

The early membership of the SPR included philosophers, scholars, scientists, educators and politicians, such as Henry Sidgwick, Arthur Balfour, William Crookes, Rufus Osgood Mason and Charles Richet.

Sir William Crookes, OM, FRS ( 17 June 1832 – 4 April 1919 ) was a British chemist and physicist who attended the Royal College of Chemistry, London, and worked on spectroscopy.

William Crookes was born in London, the eldest son of Joseph Crookes, a tailor of north-country origin, and his second wife, Mary Scott.

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William Crookes proposed a " brain wave " theory in which he claimed telepathy might occur due to high frequency vibrations of the ether.

Chemists William Crookes and Claude-Auguste Lamy discovered thallium independently in 1861, in residues of sulfuric acid production.

William Crookes used it to make spectroscopic determinations for tellurium on selenium compounds deposited in the lead chamber of a sulfuric acid production plant near Tilkerode in the Harz mountains.

** William Crookes, English chemist and physicist ( b. 1832 )

* March 30 – Discovery of the chemical elements: Sir William Crookes announces his discovery of Thallium.

* June 17 – Sir William Crookes, English chemist and physicist ( d. 1919 )

Sir William Crookes and William de Wiveleslie Abney were other early photographers to try the pinhole technique.

The most famous was the evacuated tube used for scientific research by William Crookes.

The study of psychic phenomena by major scientists started in the mid-nineteenth century ; early researchers included Michael Faraday, Alfred Russel Wallace, Rufus Osgood Mason and William Crookes.

As consequence, many Spiritualist works are widely accepted in Spiritism, particularly the works of scientists Sir William Crookes, and Sir Oliver Lodge.

Sympathetic research on Spiritism by scientists can be found in the works of Sir William Crookes, Dr. Robert Hare ( Chemist ), Sir Oliver J. Lodge, Dr. Emma Bragdon.

Henry hid his annoyance, although both he and William were furious with their Yankee brother.

In the twelfth and thirteenth centuries, interest in Aristotle revived and Latin Christians had translations made, both from Arabic translations, such as those by Gerard of Cremona, and from the original Greek, such as those by James of Venice and William of Moerbeke.

The term alphasyllabary was suggested for the Indic scripts in 1997 by William Bright, following South Asian linguistic usage, to convey the idea that " they share features of both alphabet and syllabary ".

William Prentice disagrees with both, noting that archeological evidence suggests that the Achaeans instead migrated from " southern Asia Minor to Greece, probably settling first in lower Thessaly " probably prior to 2000 BC.

Eight further provisions of the act would only come into effect upon the death of both William and Anne:

Blackridge is defined as the territory bounded on the West by Graham Boulevard, on the South by William Penn Highway, on the East by Beulah Road and the Churchill Country Club property, from the Churchill Country Club property along Orlando Place to Atkinson Place, Atkinson Place to Pine Way, and Pine Way to Graham Boulevard, and shall include the properties fronting on both sides of said portions of Country Club Drive, Orlando Place, Atkinson Place and Pine Way.

The films Johnny Mnemonic and New Rose Hotel, both based upon short stories by William Gibson, flopped commercially and critically.

William Hogarth's 18th century English cartoons include both narrative sequences, such as A Rake's Progress, and single panels.

After the outbreak of the Franco-Prussian War ( 19 July 1870 ), Monet took refuge in England in September 1870, where he studied the works of John Constable and Joseph Mallord William Turner, both of whose landscapes would serve to inspire Monet's innovations in the study of color.

Johnson ) have claimed precedence in this invention, but recent analysis of both his concrete and raw cement have shown that William Aspdin's product made at Northfleet, Kent was a true alite-based cement.

2004 ), was fan William Galen Gray's attempt to create " a chronology of all the stories, both Howard and pastiche.

" The two terms, uniformitarianism and catastrophism, were both coined by William Whewell ; in 1866 R. Grove suggested the simpler term continuity for Lyell's view, but the old terms persisted.

Among notable recipients below flag rank are: X-1 test pilot Chuck Yeager and X-15 test pilot Robert M. White, who both received the DSM as U. S. Air Force majors ; Air Force Major Rudolf Anderson, the U-2 pilot shot down during the Cuban Missile Crisis ; director Frank Capra, decorated in 1945 as an Army colonel ; actor James Stewart, decorated in 1945 as an Army Air Forces colonel ( later Air Force Brigadier General ); Col. Wendell Fertig, who led Filipino guerrillas behind Japanese lines ; Col. ( later Major General ) John K. Singlaub, who led partisan forces in the Korean War ; and Maj. Maude C. Davison, who led the " Angels of Bataan and Corregidor " during their imprisonment by the Japanese, and Colonel William S. Taylor, Program Manager Multiple Launch Rocket System.

According to Husserl, this view of logic and mathematics accounted for the objectivity of a series of mathematical developments of his time, such as n-dimensional manifolds ( both Euclidean and non-Euclidean ), Hermann Grassmann's theory of extensions, William Rowan Hamilton's Hamiltonians, Sophus Lie's theory of transformation groups, and Cantor's set theory.

The scientist William Gilbert proposed, in his De Magnete ( 1600 ), that electricity and magnetism, while both capable of causing attraction and repulsion of objects, were distinct effects.

In 1973, that book received the Sequoyah Award from Oklahoma and the William Allen White Award from Kansas, both of which were awarded by students voting for their favorite book of the year.

William requested the King to take care of both the lands and the duchess, and to also find her a suitable husband.

Constitutional nationalism enjoyed its greatest success in the 1880s and 1890s when the Irish Parliamentary Party under Charles Stewart Parnell succeeded in having two Home Rule bills introduced by the Liberal government of William Ewart Gladstone, though both failed.

Wray, a descendant of both Springfield, Massachusetts, settler William Pynchon and Mormon pioneers, was born on a ranch near Cardston, Alberta, Canada, to two Mormons, Elvina Marguerite Jones, who was from Salt Lake City, and Joseph Heber Wray, who was from Kingston upon Hull, England.

In the late 19th and early 20th centuries, John Horace Round and Frederic William Maitland, both historians of medieval Britain, arrived at different conclusions as to the character of English society before the Norman Conquest in 1066.

They asked for, and received, permission to do so from both William Lawrence Bragg and Wilkins.

It is the start / end of both the West Highland Way ( Milngavie / Fort William ) and the Great Glen Way ; a walk / cycle way ( Fort William / Inverness ).

After both his father and older brother died when he was young, Washington became personally and professionally attached to the powerful William Fairfax, who promoted his career as a surveyor and soldier.

It was immortalised both on record and on a film that played in US theatres for a week in 1964 as well as being the subject of books written by cast members William Redfield and Richard L. Sterne.