Word: rontgen
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...path of the rays, the metal became very hot. It also cast a sharp shadow on the wall of the tube. The Crookes tube, refined in mechanism, is the common x-ray tube of today, useful to physicists, metallurgists, biologists, doctors, dentists. (In 1895 the German physicist Wilhelm Konrad Rontgen discovered the penetrating powers of the rays...
...specialist in Röntgen Rays (or X-rays as they are generally called) named after the discoverer, William K. Rontgen, a German physicist...