The Disappearing Spoon

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Sam Kean

William Crookes Character Analysis

An English chemist who was inducted into the elite Royal Society at the age of only 31. Shortly after, Crooke’s brother died at sea; consumed by grief, Crookes embraced the fad of spiritualism and even attempted to make a scientific argument for the plausibility of communicating with the dead. He later renounced spiritualism.

William Crookes Quotes in The Disappearing Spoon

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Chapter 15: An Element of Madness Quotes

Unlike Crookes, or the megalodon hunters, or Pons and Fleischmann, Röntgen labored heroically to fit his findings in with known physics. He didn’t want to be revolutionary.

Related Characters: Sam Kean (speaker), William Crookes, B. Stanley Pons, Martin Fleischmann, Wilhelm Röntgen
Page Number: 271
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William Crookes Quotes in The Disappearing Spoon

The The Disappearing Spoon quotes below are all either spoken by William Crookes or refer to William Crookes. For each quote, you can also see the other characters and themes related to it (each theme is indicated by its own dot and icon, like this one:
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Chapter 15: An Element of Madness Quotes

Unlike Crookes, or the megalodon hunters, or Pons and Fleischmann, Röntgen labored heroically to fit his findings in with known physics. He didn’t want to be revolutionary.

Related Characters: Sam Kean (speaker), William Crookes, B. Stanley Pons, Martin Fleischmann, Wilhelm Röntgen
Page Number: 271
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