{"id":13232,"date":"2014-11-08T23:17:21","date_gmt":"2014-11-08T23:17:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.techiteens.com\/review\/he-put-the-x-in-x-rays\/"},"modified":"2014-11-08T23:17:21","modified_gmt":"2014-11-08T23:17:21","slug":"he-put-the-x-in-x-rays","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.techiteens.com\/review\/he-put-the-x-in-x-rays\/","title":{"rendered":"He Put the \u201cX\u201d in X-Rays"},"content":{"rendered":"
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German Physics Professor\u00a0Wilhelm R\u00f6ntgen<\/a>\u00a0stumbles upon what he would later describe as \u201cX-rays\u201d while experimenting with electrical discharge tubes. Curious as to what was causing a faint green glow on a nearby fluorescent screen, R\u00f6ntgen began systematically studying the unknown rays and published the first paper on the phenomenon less than two months later. He referred to the rays as \u201cX\u201d, indicating that they were an unknown form of radiation at the time. The name has stuck, although in several languages, X-rays are referred to as\u00a0R\u00f6ntgen rays, in tribute to his discovery. Incidentally,\u00a0R\u00f6ntgen\u00a0was awarded the very first Nobel Prize in Physics in 1901 for his work on X-rays.<\/p>\n

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