Crookesian

English

Etymology

Crookes +‎ -ian

Adjective

Crookesian (comparative more Crookesian, superlative most Crookesian)

  1. Of or relating to Sir William Crookes (1832–1919), British chemist and physicist who worked on spectroscopy and was a pioneer of vacuum tubes, inventing the Crookes tube.
    • 2004, Jed Z. Buchenwald, Andrew Warwick, Histories of the Electron: The Birth of Microphysics (page 107)
      Thomson promoted the Crookesian view of cathode rays as particulate against the apparent counterevidence presented by Phillip Lenard that such particles were not stopped by an encounter with metal […]
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