Abstract
On November 8, 1895, while doing cathode ray research, Wilhelm Conrad Roentgen (1845–1923) discovered the x-ray. By mid-January 1896, scientific and news articles on x-rays appeared in Lancet, the British Medical Journal, Nature, Science, and leading newspapers worldwide. Nearly 1000 articles and several textbooks on x-rays and radioactivity were published in 1896.1 A few months after Roentgen’s breakthrough, Henri Becquerel described the radiation-emitting properties of uranium, and Marie and Pierre Curie discovered polonium and radium–two new radioactive elements. Roentgen, Becquerel, the Curies, and more than 20 other scientists received Nobel Prizes in Physics, Chemistry, or Medicine for groundbreaking research relating to x-rays and radiation during the twentieth century.
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Shoshan, Y., Spektor, S., Rosenthal, G., Fraifeld, S., & Umansky, F. (2009). Radiation-Induced Meningioma: Historical Perspective, Presentation, Management, and Genetics. In Meningiomas (pp. 163–176). Springer London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-84628-784-8_14
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