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  • As Nobel physics laureates, Fert and Gruenberg join the ranks of some of the greatest names in science, such as Albert Einstein, Marie Curie, Niels Bohr and Wilhelm Rontgen — who won the first prize in 1901 for his discovery of X-rays.

    Nanotechnology Pioneers Win Physics Nobel | Impact Lab 2007

  • Then with those Rontgen rays searchlight you could.

    Ulysses 2003

  • But what I am anxious to arrive at is it is one thing for instance to invent those rays Rontgen did or the telescope like Edison, though I believe it was before his time

    Ulysses 2003

  • The young German gentleman of the name of Rontgen, who left England

    An Account of Timbuctoo and Housa Territories in the Interior of Africa Abd Salam Shabeeny

  • America, and their establishments in Brazil, Mexico, &c. I was established upwards of sixteen years in West and South Barbary; territories that maintain an uninterrupted intercourse with all those countries that Major Houghton, Hornemann, Park, Rontgen, Burckhardt,

    An Account of Timbuctoo and Housa Territories in the Interior of Africa Abd Salam Shabeeny

  • It was found by Faraday that many other transparent media besides heavy glass would show the phenomenon if placed between the poles, only in a less degree; and the very important observation that air itself exhibits the same phenomenon, though to an exceedingly small extent, has just been made by Kundt and Rontgen in Germany.

    Scientific American Supplement, No. 275, April 9, 1881 Various

  • Whence come the X-rays, Rontgen rays, and other light rays with their adaptability to human suffering, if they come not from this same electro-magnetic medium? their adaptability to human suffering being dependent upon the intimate and close relationship that exists between the physical body and the electro-magnetic medium.

    Aether and Gravitation William George Hooper

  • I think I can truly say that I owe almost as much to Professor Stark as to any man for the publicity given to my own work on Rontgen radiation.

    Charles Glover Barkla - Banquet Speech 1920

  • An early amputation might have saved his life; but this was postponed in the expectation that the Rontgen Rays would enable the bullet to be extracted.

    The Story of the Malakand Field Force An Episode of Frontier War Winston S. Churchill 1919

  • We think, perhaps, in our day that we have reached the top of the tree of knowledge, and we wonder how people could get along twenty years ago without knowing anything about-perhaps Rontgen rays or something like that.

    Antarctic Exploration 1915

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