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Sir William Crookes

Nature volume 113, page 607 (1924)Cite this article

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THERE is an error in my “Life of Sir William Crookes” which I should like to rectify. I stated that the disagreement between Crookes and the late Sir James Dewar over a method of producing colloidal silver led to the bankruptcy of Crookes's eldest son Henry, who had discovered the method while working under the direction of Sir James Dewar.

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