• Question: Who invented the x-ray?

    Asked by The Milky Bar Kid MINUS to Andy, Dwaine, Natt, Priya, Tatiana on 21 Jun 2015. This question was also asked by taylor.
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      Andrew Scott answered on 21 Jun 2015:

      Wilhelm Roentgen discovered x-rays in 1895 and won a Nobel prize in physics for this work. The first x-ray was of his wife’s hand and he called it the x-ray because he didn’t know what these invisible rays were and we often use x in science and maths for an unknown.

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