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During the last part of the nineteenth century, other important discoveries were also taking place. In 1896, Wilhelm Röntgen discovered X-rays and sent copies of his paper “A New Kind of Rays” written in German and the ghostly photographs of his wife’s hand showing her bones to leading scientists in Germany and around the world. With the press quickly catching up on this, his discovery became famous among scientists and public alike.
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Bayın, S.Ş. (2023). Atoms and Radioactivity. In: The Pursuit of Reality. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-99-1031-1_4
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