X-rays – a form of high-energy electromagnetic radiation – were accidentally discovered in 1895 by Wilhelm Roentgen, a German physics professor. Not knowing what they were, Roentgen called them X-rays – with the X standing for “unknown.”
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X-rays – a form of high-energy electromagnetic radiation – were accidentally discovered in 1895 by Wilhelm Roentgen, a German physics professor. Not knowing what they were, Roentgen called them X-rays – with the X standing for “unknown.”