William Duane '93, professor of Bio-Physics at the University, whose recent discovery of the means of obtaining very penetrating X-rays has attracted attention, will lecture on radio activity and ...

Proceedings of the Royal Society of London. Series A, Containing Papers of a Mathematical and Physical Character, Vol. 92, No. 643 (Aug. 1, 1916), pp. 501-504 (4 pages) ...

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The Evenings at Whitney Lecture Series returns this week with the program “Sharks and Rays on the Brink - Half a Billion Years of Innovation Under Threat.” Hosted by the University of Florida Whitney ...

THIS book is based largely on a course of Cantor Lectures given by the author, and is primarily concerned with the many practical applications to which X-rays are put at the present time; this term is ...

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WHILST preparing some experiments for a lecture on this matter, I found a very simple device to demonstrate the important fact that radium rays are very easily transmitted through a high vacuum; and I ...

Almost every point of light we see in the night sky is a star. Although the stars may look the same, they come in a variety of types, sizes and ages. Astronomer Mike Montgomery will lead a fascinating ...