X-Ray
InventorWilhelm Rontgen
Year1895
CategoryMedicine
OriginGermany
About X-Ray
Rontgen discovered them accidentally while experimenting with cathode rays. He called them X-rays because he did not know what they were. His wife was horrified by the image of her own bones. He won the first Nobel Prize in Physics in 1901.
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