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💉 Medical Milestones
X-Ray, CT Scan & MRI
Wilhelm Röntgen's 1895 X-ray discovery launched medical imaging — now 3.6 billion scans/year globally
Germany 🇩🇪 1895 Medical Milestones
Key Facts
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Röntgen discovered X-rays (1895); won the first Nobel Prize in Physics (1901)
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CT scan (1971, Hounsfield & Cormack): cross-sectional X-ray images; Nobel Prize 1979
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MRI (1977, Paul Lauterbur): uses magnetic fields and radio waves; no radiation; Nobel Prize 2003
💊 Did you know? Röntgen's first X-ray was of his wife's hand; she saw her skeleton and reportedly said "I have seen my death"
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Medical Milestones
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🇩🇪 Germany
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1895
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Wilhelm Röntgen's 1895 X-ray discovery launched medical imaging — now 3.6 billion scans/year globally