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    Wilhelm Conrad Rontgen was born on March 27, 1845 in Lennep, Prussia; which is now Remscheid, Germany. His family moved to Apeldoorn in the Netherlands, where we went to Institute of Martinus Herman van Doorn, a boarding school. He did not show any special aptitude, but he had a fascination with nature and loved roaming the countryside and walking through forests. Later he attended a technical school in Utrecht, but unfortunately was unfairly expelled for allegedly drawing a rude caricature of one

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    Crooks X-Ray History

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    The science behind the x-ray goes back to a chemist called Sir William Crooks. He was born June 17th 1832 in England. Crooks developed the Crooks Tube in 1870. This was an important invention for scientists to come, among them was Wilhelm Roentgen who in 1895 was credited with the discovery the x-ray. Back when the x-ray technique was new, people didn’t realize the damage radiation could cause. This changed soon when it was discovered how people were severely injured from the exposure, as they were

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    your body, in a black and white picture. Doctors are then able to process an image of inside your body to help see what is going on, and to help with diagnosing different diseases or illnesses. This invention was discovered by and named after Wilhelm Rontgen.

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    Medical Imaging

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    Medical Imaging in Art and Archeology On November 8, 1895 Wilhelm Roentgen discovered x-rays. X-rays have evolved drastically over the past 120 years and there have been many new discoveries that are used to this day in diagnostic medicine. Some of the different modalities in medical imaging have also been very helpful when studying art and archeology. Both x-rays and CT’s are used to look at art to confirm its authenticity, archeology for the study of mummies, and also archeology to exam the

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    The History of the X-Rays Essay

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    During the cold winter of 1895, a German scientist by the name of Wilhelm Conrad Roentgen was working with a cathode-ray tube when he noticed nearby crystals were glowing. When Roentgen reached for the crystals he was amazed when the shadow cast on the crystal was not of his whole hand, but just his bones. Roentgen covered the tube with heavy black paper and saw that the crystals still glowed and the shadow of his hand bones still shown through, he then determined that a new ray was being emitted

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    things X-rays can diagnose, the history is quite interesting also. II. X-rays have an interesting history A. The discovery of the X-ray was a huge medical advancement 1. In 1895 the discovery of X-rays by the German scientist of physics, Wilhelm Roentgen, created an amazing step forward in the history of medicine. For the first time ever, the inner workings of the body could be made visible without having to operate. -The first x-ray Roentgen ever created was an image of his wife's hand

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    Imagine a machine that made what was once invisible, visible. Wilhelm Roentgen discovered the X-ray in 1895. X-rays impacted the field of medicine greatly. The discovery of X-rays significantly changed how we could see the human body, treatment options, and how we viewed X-rays. Wilhelm C. Roentgen was a German physicist. He was born on March 27, 1845, and died on February 10, 1923. He was married to, Anna Bertha Ludwig. He received education from the University of Zurich, the Institute of Martinus

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    X-Ray have been around since the late 1890s. It was created and used for medicine. It is an invisible ray that can pass through solid matter. X-Ray was perfect for the use of locating broke bones through the skin of a body. Shortly after it was produced for medicine, the military saw a better fit for the new discovery. They took this invention, and they thought of a new way to use it. Countries cannot produce more soldiers, but they can extend the lives of the soldiers they already have. The advancement

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    The Discovery of X-Rays Essay

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    The Discovery of X-Rays X-rays were discovered by accident in 1895 by the German physicist Wilhelm Conrad Roentgen. Roentgen was already an accomplished scientist with forty-eight published papers. He had a reputation among the scientific community as a dedicated scientist with precise experimental methods. Roentgen had been conducting experiments at the University of Wurzburg on the effect of cathode-rays on the luminescence of certain chemicals. Roentgen had placed a cathode-ray tube, which

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    Radiation Therapy There is no reliable cure to cancer that we know of still to this day. However, in 1896 a German physics professor, Wilhelm Conrad Roentgen, made a discovery that has saved millions of lives (The American Red Cross Society Medical and Editorial Team, 1). Roentgen discovered x-rays. With in months of this discovery, x-rays were being used for diagnosis and 3 months following radiation began to be used for cancer treatment (The American Red Cross Society Medical and Editorial Team

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