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Crookesian
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English
Etymology
From en Crookes ian.
Adjective
Of or relating to Sir William Crookes (1832–1919), British chemist and physicist who worked on spectroscopy and was a pioneer of vacuum tubes, inventing the Crookes tube.
en 2004 Jed Z. Buchenwald; Andrew Warwick Histories of the Electron: The Birth of Microphysics 107 Thomson promoted the Crookesian view of cathode rays as particulate against the apparent counterevidence presented by Phillip Lenard that such particles were not stopped by an encounter with metal
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