Overview and who should attend
This year marks the centenary of the death of William Crookes. Journalist, chemist, photographer, spiritualist, businessman, sometime Secretary of the Royal Institution and President of the Royal Society of London, Crookes was a key figure in the science of the second half of the nineteenth century and beginning of the twentieth. This meeting, which is part of the ChemFest celebrations of the sesquicentenary of the periodic table, will examine various aspects of Crookes's extraordinary career and his place in science.The meeting will be of interest to chemists, physicists, and historians.
There is no charge for the meeting, but registration is essential by completing the Registration Form and e-mailing or posting it to the address indicated on the form.
Programme
13.30 Registration
13:45 Welcome and Introduction: Frank James, (Royal Institution and Chair of SHAC)
First Session Chair: Anna Simmons (UCL)
13.50 Richard Noakes (Exeter University)
'Two Parallel Lines'? The Trajectories of Physical and Psychical Research in the Work of William Crookes
14:30 Kelley Wilder (De Montfort University, Leicester)
William Crookes, a life in Photo-91AV
15.10 Refreshment Break
Second Session Chair: Peter Morris (Chair of RSCHG)
15.30 Frank James (Royal Institution and UCL)
William Crookes and Michael Faraday
16.10 Paul Ranford (UCL)
Crookes’s “Invisible Helper” – George Gabriel Stokes (1819-1903)
16.50 William Brock (University of Leicester)
The key to the deepest mystery of nature: Crookes, periodicity and the genesis and evolution of the elements
17.30 Close of meeting
