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X-Rays: The Discovery that Revolutionized Science (1895)
Wilhelm Röntgen discovered X-rays while experimenting with cathode rays and crystals, leading to the realization that ...
The Scientist1y
The First X-ray, 1895
At the end of the 19th century, while studying the effects of passing an electrical current through gases at low pressure, German physicist Wilhelm Röntgen accidentally discovered X-rays—highly ...
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X-rays and another accidental discoveries
On 8 November 1895, German scientist Wilhem Röntgen discovered x-rays – a new technology that revolutionised medicine. Only, the interesting thing is, he didn’t actually mean to. Röntgen’s ...
Nature29d
Dialectics of Nature
FREDERICK ENGELS died in 1895, one year before Röntgen's discovery of X-rays and the enormous flowering of physical and chemical knowledge that followed from it. Science to-day is very different ...
Nature24d
Discovery and Uses of X-Rays
1895, which appeared in the same issue. This, we believe, was the first complete account of Röntgen's work published in England. To the same issue (Jan. 23, p. 276) the late Mr. A. A. Campbell ...