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Wilhelm Conrad Röntgen : the birth of radiology / Gerd Rosenbusch, Annemarie de Knecht-van Eekelen.
LIBRA QC16.R66 R58 2019
Available from offsite location
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Rosenbusch, Gerd, author.
- Knecht-Van Eekelen, A. de, author.
- Series:
- Springer biographies 2365-0613
- Springer biographies, 2365-0613
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Röntgen, Wilhelm Conrad, 1845-1923.
- Röntgen, Wilhelm Conrad.
- Physicists--Germany--Biography.
- Physicists.
- Radiology.
- History.
- Germany.
- Radiology--History.
- Genre:
- Biographies.
- Physical Description:
- xvii, 203 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 25 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- Cham : Springer Nature, [2019]
- Summary:
- This book, which will appeal to all with an interest in the history of radiology and physics, casts new light on the life and career of Wilhelm Conrad Röntgen, showing how his personality was shaped by his youth in the Netherlands and his teachers in Switzerland. Beyond this, it explores the technical developments relevant to the birth of radiology in the late nineteenth century and examines the impact of the discovery of X-rays on a broad range of scientific research.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Local Notes:
- Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Edward Potts Cheyney Memorial Fund.
- ISBN:
- 3319976605
- 9783319976600
- OCLC:
- 1042402528
- Publisher Number:
- 99980884205
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