{"id":14755,"date":"2018-11-08T23:15:59","date_gmt":"2018-11-08T23:15:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.techiteens.com\/review\/he-put-the-x-in-x-rays-3\/"},"modified":"2018-11-08T23:15:59","modified_gmt":"2018-11-08T23:15:59","slug":"he-put-the-x-in-x-rays-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.techiteens.com\/review\/he-put-the-x-in-x-rays-3\/","title":{"rendered":"He Put the \u201cX\u201d in X-Rays"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/thisdayintechhistory.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/WilhelmR\u00f6ntgen.jpg\" rel=\"lightbox[2466]\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-2467\" title=\"Wilhelm R\u00f6ntgen\" alt=\"Wilhelm R\u00f6ntgen\" src=\"http:\/\/www.techiteens.com\/review\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/2d3cc__WilhelmR\u00f6ntgen-212x300.jpg\" width=\"212\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.techiteens.com\/review\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/2d3cc__WilhelmR\u00f6ntgen-212x300.jpg 212w, http:\/\/thisdayintechhistory.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/WilhelmR\u00f6ntgen.jpg 280w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 212px) 100vw, 212px\" \/><\/a>November 8, 1895<\/p>\n<p>German Physics Professor\u00a0<a title=\"Wilhelm R\u00f6ntgen\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Wilhelm_R%C3%B6ntgen\" target=\"_blank\">Wilhelm R\u00f6ntgen<\/a>\u00a0stumbles upon what he would later describe as &#8220;X-rays&#8221; 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 &#8220;X&#8221;, 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<p>The post <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"http:\/\/thisdayintechhistory.com\/11\/08\/he-put-the-x-in-x-rays\/\">He Put the &#8220;X&#8221; in X-Rays<\/a> appeared first on <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"http:\/\/thisdayintechhistory.com\">This Day in Tech History<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"http:\/\/thisdayintechhistory.com\/11\/08\/he-put-the-x-in-x-rays\/\">This Day in Tech History<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Tech History provided by This Day in Tech History.com<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>November 8, 1895 German Physics Professor\u00a0Wilhelm R\u00f6ntgen\u00a0stumbles upon what he would later describe as &#8220;X-rays&#8221; 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 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_kadence_starter_templates_imported_post":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[194],"tags":[3986,3985],"class_list":["post-14755","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-today-in-tech","tag-xrays","tag-x"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.techiteens.com\/review\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14755"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.techiteens.com\/review\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.techiteens.com\/review\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.techiteens.com\/review\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.techiteens.com\/review\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14755"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.techiteens.com\/review\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14755\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.techiteens.com\/review\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14755"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.techiteens.com\/review\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14755"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.techiteens.com\/review\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14755"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}