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History of x-rays


100 Years of Medical Radiology
http://www.rhhct.org.uk/history.html
Discovery/ Apparatus/ Pioneers/ Recent Developments

The History of X-rays
http://www.xray2000.co.uk/

Long page of text (no headings or images) but good.

Coolidge Biography
http://www.harvardsquarelibrary.org/unitarians/coolidge.html
courtesy of Harvard Square Library

Roentgen biography

http://www.nobel.se/physics/laureates/1901/rontgen-bio.html

courtesy of Noble Prize web site

Medical uses of x-rays

What is involved in a career as a Radiographer
http://www.radiographers.org/professionalinfo/radiography_radiographers.htm


Industrial use of x-rays

X-ray Inspection Techniques in Industry
http://www.umw.edu

Demonstrations/ Applets/ Animations

Ionisation (demo)
http://pubs.acs.org/doi/abs/10.1021/ed004p1297

Diagnostic x-rays (demo)
http://www.xray2000.co.uk/

Bremhstrahlung and K-shell knockout (demo)
http://www.colorado.edu/physics/2000/xray/making_xrays.html

Diffraction (demo)
http://www.eserc.stonybrook.edu/ProjectJava/Bragg/


Background reading

Electromagnetic spectrum
http://imagine.gsfc.nasa.gov/docs/science/know_l1/emspectrum.html

Photoelectric Effect (demo)
http://lectureonline.cl.msu.edu/~mmp/kap28/PhotoEffect/

Electromagnetic wave (demo)
http://www.phy.ntnu.edu.tw/java/emWave/emWave.html

Compton scattering
http://imagine.gsfc.nasa.gov/docs/science/how_l2/compton_scatter.html

Rutherford scattering (demo)
http://www.phys.virginia.edu/classes/109N/more_stuff/Applets/rutherford/rutherford.html