Word: roentgen
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Professor William Duane '93. Research Fellow in Physics, a noted Roentgen ray expert, is at present attempting to determine the structure of the atom by means of X-ray spectra. A current of tremendous voliage is projected into a Roentgen tube arranged in such a way that the X-ray generated will be passed through a diamond prism. The resulting spectrum is caught on a photographic plate...
Wilhelm Konrad Roentgen (1845-1923), German physicist, discovered X (or roentgen) rays; won the 1901 Nobel prize...
British *Hippocrates *Harvey Sydenham Hunter *Pasteur Jenner *Laennec Simpson or Morton *Lister Roentgen...
...Medical School, St. Louis, began research to make possible visualization of the gallbladder by use of the Xray. They found that certain salts injected into the body are eliminated through the bile, which is stored in the gallbladder. They knew that iodin and bromin salts are opaque to the Roentgen ray. They secured a combination of these salts and obtained X-ray pictures of the abdomen in which the gallbladder, previously invisible because of soft tissue, appeared almost as clearly as did the bones themselves. Stones in the gallbladder were localized easily. At the meeting of the American Roentgen...
...following five members of the faculty of the Medical School have resigned: Dr. C. S. Beck, director of the Laboratory for Surgical Research; Dr. M. C. Sosman, Roentgen ray expert; Dr. Z. B. Adams, instructor in orthopedic surgery; Dr. Maurice Freemont Smith, assistant in medicine; and Dr. J. P. Powell '16, hygiene instructor...