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...Roentgen is a unit used in measuring gamma and X rays. It is named after Wilhelm Konrad Röntgen, a German physicist who discovered X rays...
Last week, at the American Roentgen Ray Society meeting in Miami Beach, it was apparent that radiotherapy is rapidly fighting its way out of the last-resort category. Said Memorial Sloan-Kettering...
With Oxygen. Drs. Harold Atkins and William Seaman of New York's Colum bia-Presbyterian Medical Center told of progress toward licking a basic problem-radiosensitivity. Since Wilhelm Roentgen discovered X rays, in 1895, radiotherapists have been trying to get radiation to destroy diseased tissue while letting healthy nearby tissue survive...
...view of the advantages of this shift in our economic base, we may look forward with confidence to the future, to the fulfillment of our fondest hopes, and to the achievement of our common goal, whatever that may be, to the day the almighty dollar bows to the lowly roentgen. L. G. King '61 R. N. Zare...
Died. Dr. Emil Herman Grubbe, 85, Chicago-born physician and radiation expert who generated X rays soon after Roentgen did in 1895, became the world's first known victim of radiation as it progressively caused cancer in his hands and left forearm, most of his nose, upper lip and jaw; of pneumonia (an indirect result of his cancer); in Chicago, after a lifetime of 93 operations...