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...plain man-in-the-pew nor even for the average preacher-in-the-pulpit are Bishop Barnes' thoroughgoing expositions of matter, space, spacetime, relativity, electricity, heat & light, the quantum theory and Rontgen rays, the solar system, galactic universe and nebulae, evolution and man's origin. As Dr. Barnes points out: "The intellectual gulf between the leaders of science and the educated citizen is dangerously wide." Yet in his lectures there are numerous stout little bridges...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Science & Faith | 6/19/1933 | See Source »

...path of the rays, the metal became very hot. It also cast a sharp shadow on the wall of the tube. The Crookes tube, refined in mechanism, is the common x-ray tube of today, useful to physicists, metallurgists, biologists, doctors, dentists. (In 1895 the German physicist Wilhelm Konrad Rontgen discovered the penetrating powers of the rays...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Cascading Electrons | 2/27/1928 | See Source »

...specialist in Röntgen Rays (or X-rays as they are generally called) named after the discoverer, William K. Rontgen, a German physicist...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Bergonie | 11/17/1924 | See Source »

...fourth Symphony concert of the season will be given in Sanders Theatre this evening at 7.30. The programme will be: Overture, "Hans Heiling," Marschuer; Concerts for Pianoforte, Schumann; Norwegian Ballad, Rontgen; Symphony No.2, Beethoven. Mme. Antoinette Szumowska is the soloist...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Symphony Concert. | 12/7/1899 | See Source »

Boston Symphony Orchestra Concert. Soloist: Mme. Antoinette Szumowska. Sanders Theatre, 7.45 p. m. Programme: Marschner, Overture, "Hans Heiling"; Schumann, Concerto for Pianoforte; Rontgen, Norwegian Ballad; Beethoven, Symphony...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: University Calendar. | 12/7/1899 | See Source »

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