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Wilhelm Conrad Roentgen was born in Lennep, a small medieval textile town in Germany, in 1845, so that this year (1995) is not only the 100th anniversary of his discovery of X-rays on 8 November 1895, but also the 150th anniversary of his birth.
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Grainger, R.G. (1998). Development of intravascular contrast agents: the first 100 years. In: Dawson, P., Clauss, W. (eds) Advances in X-Ray Contrast. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-011-3959-5_12
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