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About the Author
William H. Brock, Emeritus Professor of History of Science, University of Leicester, UK
Reviews
PRIZE: Winner of the 2009 Roy G. Neville Prize in Bibliography or Biography presented by the Chemical Heritage Foundation '...Brock brings Crookes alive in masterful detail and with literary style in this novel-like yet definitive history...Highly recommended. All libraries.' Choice 'Brock, using more than 800 published articles by Crookes, as well as his journalism and surviving manuscripts, most important his laboratory notebooks, has written a convincing (I would almost be tempted to say definitive) account of Crookes's varied life. ... Like all good biographers Brock has cast light onto far more than the subject. ... Crookes emerges as a major figure in 19th- and 20th-century science, and historians will long be grateful to Brock for tracking Crookes's role in the development of science in virtually all its aspects.' Chemical Heritage 'To write the biography of such a varied man is a challenge, but Brock has met that challenge in superb fashion... The last biography of Crookes was written by Fournier d'Albe in 1923. Brock's achievement is such that there should be no need to write another for at least 86 more years.' Bulletin for the History of Chemistry 'Brock's is a readable, well researched, doorstop biography - an exhaustive account of an exhausting life.' Medical History 'This is a highly-informed and exhaustive work on a scientist across the vast range of Victorian and Edwardian England opportunity who, ultimately, in his long life, garnered many accolades from the most prominent of scientific societies.' EH.NET 'Si le terme definitif peut Atre employe en histoire, nul doute que ce livre constitue la biographie definitive de Sir William Crookes. Historiens des sciences, physiciens et chimistes curieux de leur histoire, et historiens interesses par le rAle de la science et des scientifiques dans la societe tireront grand profit de la lecture de cet ouvrage, ecrit dans un bel anglais, accessible et clair, vif et a
Book Information
ISBN 9781138259881
Author William H. Brock
Format Paperback
Page Count 588
Imprint Routledge
Publisher Taylor & Francis Ltd
Weight(grams) 453g