X-rays
Rayos X
- Date
- 1895 · confidence high
- Place
- Würzburg, Germany
- Credited to
- Wilhelm Conrad Röntgen (8-11-1895)
- People
- 👤 Wilhelm Röntgen1845–1923
- Field
- Life & health
What it is
Penetrating radiation discovered with a Crookes tube, able to photograph the interior of the body. First non-invasive medical image and first Nobel Prize in Physics (1901).
What it led to
- Diagnostic radiology and image-guided surgery
- Radiotherapy and the discovery of radioactivity
- Crystallography and the structure of DNA
Built on
- Vacuum pump (air pump)1650
- Ruhmkorff induction coilc. 1851
- Pupin's intensifying fluorescent screen for X-rays1896
- Crookes tube
- Cathode rays and the Crookes tube
- Photographic plates
- Fluorescent screens
Made possible
- Radioactivity and radium1896–1898
- Radiotherapy1896–1903
- Radium and radiotherapy1898-1903
- X-ray diffraction (crystallography)1912–1913
- X-ray diffraction by crystals and Bragg's law1912-1913
- Compton effect1923
- X-ray induced mutation (Muller)1927
- Mathematical basis of computed tomography (Cormack)1956-1963
- Computed tomography (CT scanner)1971
- Computed tomography
- Radiography (X-ray imaging)
- X-ray diffractometer
- Airport security