Roentgen
['rʌntdʒən;'rɜːnt-;'rɒnt-;-gən] or ['rɛntjən]
Definition
(noun.) German physicist who discovered x-rays and developed roentgenography (1845-1923).
(noun.) a unit of radiation exposure; the dose of ionizing radiation that will produce 1 electrostatic unit of electricity in 1 cc of dry air.
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Examples
- Unable to explain the nature or cause of this wonderful revelation, Roentgen gave to the light an algebraic name for the unknown--the X rays. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
- Soon after the announcement of Prof. Roentgen’s discovery, apparatus was devised for seeing with the naked eye the image formed by the shadow of the X-Rays. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
- By the aid of the Roentgen Rays, it locates a bullet in a wounded soldier, and takes a picture of one’s spinal column. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
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