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...Baron William Thomson Kelvin, born in Belfast in 1824, was the most eminent physicist of his time. He published over 300 original papers covering every branch of physical science. He made possible submarine telegraphy, and invented practically all the instruments used by electrical engineers for measurement...
Died. Dr. Robert Simpson Woodward, 74, famed mathematical physicist, for 16 years President of Carnegie Institution of Washington, and onetime President of the American Association for the Advancement of Science; at Washington, after a year's illness following influenza...
...position of advantage in dealing with his own Government, but hasn't produced enough results to justify any large investment. The scientific world is unanimous in condemning Matthews' publicity before thorough tests. New names of great scientists who laughed at Matthews' story included Edouard Branly, French physicist, who said that no concentration of known rays could produce the force claimed, and that scientists do not anticipate the discovery of new rays that can. Dr. John H. Morecroft, of Columbia University, says that no scheme for using rays destructively has yet advanced beyond that of Archimedes, who burned...
...atomic symposium, some differences of opinion between the physicist and the chemist came to light. Said Prof. Millikan in substance...
...lower, and the frequency of radiation is proportional to the energy loss in the process. This is the Einstein-Bohr law of radiation, which has been amply verified in the past five years. As to what the electrons are doing when they are not radiating, chemists and physicists on the whole hold divergent views. The chemist believes the electrons are at rest (what I call "the loafer theory"), but the physicist believes they are rotating in orbits at enormous speed. The chemist argues that such activity would soon dissipate all their energy, which is unanswerable if the electromagnetic laws...