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Early History of X Rays - SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory
Early History of X Raysby ALEXIASSMUS10 SUMMER 1995 The discovery of X raysin 1895 was thebeginning of arevolutionary change in our understanding of the physical THE WINTERof the year of his fiftieth birthday, and the year following his appointment to the leadership of the Universityof W rzburg, Rector Wilhelm Conrad Roentgen noticed a bariumplatinocyanide screen fluorescing in his Laboratory as hegenerated cathode rays in a Crookes tube some distance aside for a time his duties to the university and to hisstudents, Rector Roentgen spent the next six weeks in his labora-tory, working alone, and sharing nothing with his colleagues. BEAM LINE11 Three days before Christmas hebrought his wife into his laborato-ry, and they emerged with a photo-graph of the bones in her hand and ofthe ring on her finger. The W rzburgPhysico-Medical Society was the firstto hear of the new rays that couldpenetrate the body and photographits bones.
electrical discharges in gases. He had taken his turn at measuring the specific heat ratios of gases using a sensitive thermometer of his own making. He was an exact experi-menter who often made his own apparatus—a skill learned during his training as an engineer in Zurich— and he was able to measure ex-tremely small effects, surpassing
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