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On 8 November, 1895 Professor Wilhelm Conrad Röntgen (1845–1923) discovered an unknown kind of ray, which he called X-ray. While he was busy with experiments on the behaviour of cathode rays (these tests were very much in vogue at that time) in Hittorf-Geissler-Crookes tubes (glass envelopes in which the air has been evacuated to a very high degree) he happened to notice that some crystals lying near the tube had become strongly fluorescent. Rontgen studied this phenomenon and decided that it was caused by a hitherto unknown radiation.
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© 1980 G. J. van der Plaats
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Van der Plaats, G.J. (1980). Discovery and Production of X-Rays; Construction and Function of the X-Ray Tube. In: Medical X-Ray Techniques in Diagnostic Radiology. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-009-8785-2_1
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