ocr: B R - - A L WILHELM RONTGEN found some new: rays were coming L 1845-1923 from the apparatus. He called them X-rays (X was the mathematical symbol for an unknown quantity). Rontgen was intrigued by the new rays. He discovered they could easily pass through flesh, but were stopped by bone, and the shadow that the bone cast could be recorded M ona photographic plate. His discovery, for which he was awarded the Nobel Prize in 1901, revolutionized medicine by enabling 1 ILHELM RONTGEN studied X-ray machines to see inside bodies. engineering in Holland Rontgen refused to patent the - and in 1888 he ...
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