The discovery of x-ray by Wilhelm Conrad Roentgen -
November 8, 1895
The discovery of x-ray by Wilhelm Conrad Roentgen -
November 8, 1895
Dr. Roentgen refused to patent any of the apparatus associated with the production of x-rays believing that this new discovery should be used for "the good of man". If the discovery were made today, do you think that the discoverer would be likely to make the same decision?
The first x-ray made in the United States by Dr. Edwin Frost at Dartmouth University - February 3, 1896
The isolation of radium by Marie Curie - December 1898 - Discovery of the radioimmunoassay (RIA) technique by Dr. Rosalyn Yallow - Nobel Prize 1977
The development of a workable computed tomography machine for body imaging by Geoffrey Hounsfield - Nobel Prize - 1979
The use of clinical Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI) in the United States - Summer of 1985
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