Sir William Crookes claimed success in 1909 . Otto Ruff claimed in 1917 to have produced diamonds up to 7 mm in diameter, but later retracted his statement.
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On 11 February 1876 he heard Sir William Crookes give an evening discourse at the Royal Institution on " The Mechanical Action of Light " when Crookes demonstrated his light mill or radiometer.
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"' Sir William Crookes "'( 17 June 1832 4 April 1919 ) was an English chemist and physicist who attended the Royal College of Chemistry, London, and worked on spectroscopy.
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Sir William Crookes, a gem connoisseur as well as a chemist and physicist, was the first to discover radiation's effects on diamond color when in 1904 he conducted a series of experiments using radium salts.
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The President of the Royal Society, Sir William Crookes, said in his anniversary address in November 1915 that Tanner's death meant that mathematical science had lost " one of its most distinguished exponents ", one who published " many important investigations in mathematics " that were " distinguished by great ingenuity and originality ".
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After Hertz's experiments, Sir William Crookes published an article in February 1892 in " The Fortnightly Review " on'Some possibilities of electricity'with his thoughts on possibility of wireless communication based on the research of Lodge and Hertz, and the American physicist Amos Emerson Dolbear brought similar attention to the idea.
