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In 1901 Wilhelm Konrad Roentgen was the first recipient of the Nobel Prize for Physics, and he truly deserves his place in history because his discovery revolutionized the medical world.

A series of experiments helped him notice that barium platinocyanide emits a fluorescent glow. Combining his observation with a photographic plate and his wife's hand, he made the first X-ray photo, and thus, made it possible to look inside the human body without surgical intervention.
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That is incredible! These people truly must always be remembered for such an amazing contribution without which we could not have accurate diagnosis, surgery, etc. These inventors are heros too!
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Re: Photograph of the First X-Ray
this reminds me of an article i read recently...


Video: The Scotch-Tape X-Ray Machine
By Alexis Madrigal October 22, 2008 | 2:05:22 PMCategories: Video, Web/Tech

Sometimes, the journal Nature shines a light on a strange, dust-mitey corner of science, and you find yourself staring at an unimaginably weird creature/experiment.

In today's issue, they dedicate several pages to the odd story of a couple of guys at UCLA who've built a machine for unpeeling sticky-tape in a vacuum at the rate of 3 centimeters per second for the express purpose of generating x-rays.

Amazingly, it works. Check out the video for proof.

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