Röntgen dies 100 years agoRevolutionary for medicine and technology

What Professor Röntgen discovered by chance in the evening during experiments in the laboratory in Würzburg revolutionized science. 100 years after his death, researchers are using the rays named after him to illuminate more than just people.

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Roentgen image of a hand
© Felix Kästle/dpa

An X-ray image on a screen in a hospital in Baden-Württemberg shows the left hand of a young person aged between 16 and 19. The radiological examination of the carpal bone and the hand can be used to determine a person's age.

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