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History Of X-Rays
rays were discovered in 1895 by W.C. Roentgen who "noticed a barium platinocyanide screen fluorescing in his laboratory as he generated cathode rays in a Crookes tube." (Assmus) This was the beginning of a discovery that forever changed the way we saw human body and million of other physical phenomenon. X-rays were given this name because Roentgen couldn't decide where they were coming from, how they were being generated etc. And hence chose to assign the letter X to them. He was excited to discover that these rays could penetrate human body and give pictures of bones and internal organs. The Wurzburg Physico-Medical society was first informed of the news and within days it was sent around the world via telegraph. Interestingly the rays couldn't just penetrate human body but all solid objects and New York Times realized just how important this discovery could be for surgeons, NYT predicted that these X-rays could lead to the "transformation of modern surgery by enabling the surgeon to detect the presence of foreign bodies." (Jan. 16, 1896, p. 9) Roentgen won a Nobel Prize for his discovery which was very well deserved considering the fact that he was the first to notice the X-rays when similar rays had been seen before. Once the discovery became public, there was no stopping the physicists, scientists and even photographers. Everyone tried to find out how they could make use of those rays with Edison developing incandescent bulbs to produce X-rays and British scientist William Bragg worked on inner nature of X and y-rays. Many more researches and studies followed the initial discovery and they helped better understand the nature of X-rays and how they could benefit the medical community.
References
Alexi Assmus: Early History of X-rays. Retrieved online 3rd June 2009 from http://www.slac.stanford.edu/pubs/beamline/25/2/25-2-assmus.pdf
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