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X-ray - Discovery by Röntgen

Time: Friday Nov 8, 1895

Place: Germany

Details: On November 8, 1895, German physics professor Wilhelm Röntgen stumbled on X-rays while experimenting with Lenard tubes and Crookes tubes and began studying them.

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