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Röntgen discovered the X-rays, but he did not know what the nature of the rays would be. Between 1895 and 1912, several physicists, among them the Groninger Professor Haga and his Lecturer Wind, researched the new rays . Haga and Wind showed the analogy between X-rays and light, and they estimated the wavelength. Solving this problem was the achievement of Max von Laue in 1912. Today people recognise the discovery of X-rays as one of the most important discoveries in medicine of the last 100 years. Radiology developed since the hand photograph of Bertha Röntgen on 22 December 1895 at an incredible pace and gained a significant place amidst the other medical specialties. There are many different uses for X-rays outside the medical field.
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Rosenbusch, G., de Knecht-van Eekelen, A. (2019). X-Rays: Vista of Another World. In: Wilhelm Conrad Röntgen. Springer Biographies. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-97661-7_8
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