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 ...

Professor John Trowbridge delivered a lecture last night in the Jefferson Physical Laboratory, under the auspices of the Engineering Society, on "Cathode Rays." The large lecture room was filled to ...

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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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 ...

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 ...

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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 ...