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...unit of measurement named for the discoverer of X rays, Wilhelm Konrad Roentgen...
...routine chest X ray, a patient absorbs about 0.05 roentgen...
...medical science an answer to the increase of lung cancer? Some doctors have urged wholesale chest X rays of the population at large, and especially of men over 45. But last week the American Roentgen Ray Society heard a vigorous dissent...
...bomb exploded, each team would pick up its equipment and move as fast as possible toward the center of the damage area. As soon as their instruments detected radioactivity, they would report its intensity and position to the control center. When a team encountered radiation above 30 roentgens per hour, it would chalk a red "D" (for danger) on a house wall. (A green "S" would mean safe.) Then the team would turn and move around the damage center in a clockwise pattern tracing the limits of the 30-roentgen area and marking it with...
Last week, after more than 20 years of such torment, death-ironically, from a heart ailment-came to Percy Emerson Brown, 74, a martyr to the Roentgen rays...