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Advanced Materials & Processes,  November, 2005  

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Selected items from the pages of Metal Progress, the monthly magazine of ASM International from 1930 to 1986. 60 years ago ... November 1945: The world commemorates this month the 50th anniversary of that momentous event when, on November 8, 1895, a professor of physics at Wurzburg Physical Institute established the existence of X-rays.

Exactly how Wilhelm Konrad Roentgen did discover these mysterious radiations is a matter which biographers have not succeeded in clearing up, but it is certain that he was the first to appreciate their significance and to differentiate them ...

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