Sir william crookes biography of rory

One of the greatest physicists of the last century and an early exponent of scientific investigation of psychic phenomena.

Sir william crookes biography of rory

William Crookes was born June 17, 1832, in London, England, and educated at Chippenhurst Grammar School and the Royal College of Chemistry, London. Even without a graduate education, he became one of the most decorated scientists of his era.

In 1855 he became superintendent of the Meterological Department, Radcliffe Observatory, Oxford.

In 1861 he made his first great discovery, the element thallium. Two years later, he became an Elected Fellow of the Royal Society.

Crookes seems to have been led into research on Spiritualism because of the untimely death of his brother Philip in 1867.

He first came into contact with psychic phenomena in July 1869 in a sitting with Mary Marshall. He was further intrigued by trance speaker J. J. Morse in December, and in July 1870, after the arrival of Henry Slade in London, he annou