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Professor William Duane '93. Research Fellow in Physics, a noted Roentgen ray expert, is at present attempting to determine the structure of the atom by means of X-ray spectra. A current of tremendous voliage is projected into a Roentgen tube arranged in such a way that the X-ray generated will be passed through a diamond prism. The resulting spectrum is caught on a photographic plate...
Sinces the X-ray is composed of a stream of atoms, the spectrum may be used to find the composition of the individual atom by the Fraunhofer method...
...concealed excitement. Weeks before, the committee on awards had notified Dr. William David Coolidge, assistant research director of the General Electric Co., that he was this year's recipient of the Howard N. Potts gold medal, in recognition of his now universally used invention, the Coolidge X-ray tube. And Dr. Coolidge had replied, saying that he would present himself for the reward, and at the same time submit a demonstration called: "A Method of Producing High Voltage Cathode Rays Outside the Generating Tube...
...electro-physicists this title was a great deal more significant than it would have sounded to laymen. It meant that Dr. Coolidge-the man who, besides his X-ray work, first learned to make brittle tungsten ductile and so suitable for electric light bulbs ("Mazda") of low price and long life-that this man of results had been exploring a field discovered 50 years ago by Sir William Crookes of England and only faintly understood ever since...
...Bennett's medium is not the X-ray, which penetrates its subject and discoveds unguessed-at causes, nor is it the telescope, which brings out the concomitant phenomena of an object, relegating that object to its proper environment. He depends solely upon the misroscope for his effect. "Lord Raingo" is a meticulous examination of multitudinous minutiae, and little more than that. The Bennett of old was wont to sport with his realistic characers by plunging them into romantic situations, as in "The Grand Babylon Hotel," or "Buried Alive." His latest effort, however, deals with a prosy old codger who maunders...