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Wednesday, November 10, 2010

Google Celebrates the 115th Anniversary of the X-Ray

 

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Google celebrating the X-rays' 115th anniversary with a special Google doodle that links directly to search results for "X-rays."

X-rays began on Nov. 8, 1895 through Wilhelm Röntgen's work with tubes and radiation.

Wilhelm Roentgen is credited with the discovery of X-rays. He systematically studied them in 1895. He took an X-ray image of his wife's hand with a ring on.  This immediately generated enormous interest.  See the Wikipedia article for the image of his wife's hand and much more information about X-rays.

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