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WITHIN a period of fifteen years prior to the King's accession, Rontgen had discovered the X-rays and J. J. Thomson the electron, Becquerel had discovered radioactivity and the Curies had isolated radium. The new reign was to prove an era of X-ray and radium research no less fruitful than its predecessor. In particular, the X-ray crystal diffraction experiments of Laue in Germany in 1912, followed by those of the Braggs in England, opened up a new vista of research which has left its mark on physics, found diverse and important applications in industry and is beginning to acquire significance in the biological sciences. Rontgen, who had lived to see many of these developments, died in 1923 in his seventy-eighth year, poor in fortune, but consoled by the beneficent services which his discovery had rendered in the War.
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KAYE, G. Therapeutic and other Applications of X-Rays and Gamma-Rays. Nature 135, 724–726 (1935). https://doi.org/10.1038/135724a0
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