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The X-ray (or the ‘new light’) was discovered quite coincidentally by Wilhelm Conrad Röntgen on 8 November 1895in Würzburg, Germany. Röntgen, a professor of physics, conducted experiments focussing on light phenomena and other emissions generated by discharging an electrical current in a highly-evacuated glass tube (a so-called Crookes tube, named after the British investigator William Crookes).
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van Gelderen, F. (2004). A Brief History of Radiology. In: Understanding X-Rays. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-18941-8_26
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