The New Student's Reference Work/Zahm, John Augustus

Zahm, John Augustus, born at Lexington, O., June 14, 1851; graduated at Notre Dame University and joined the Congregation of Holy Cross in 1871; became a priest in 1874; and was Provincial of his order in the United States from 1897 to 1906. He studied and experimented with Helmholtz in Germany, and is a leading authority on acoustics; his first book, Sound and Music (1893) popularized that subject and greatly aided musical science. He is known as an advanced evolutionist, but his works aim only to show the harmony between demonstrated science and the Christian religion. They are Evolution and Dogma; Catholic Science and Catholic Scientists; Scientific Theory and Catholic Doctrine; Science and the Church. His brother, a layman, Albert P. Zahm, Ph.D., professor of physics at the Catholic University of Washington, D. C., is a noted authority on aërodynamics, and has been of great service to aëronautical investigators.