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When she saw her the bones in her hand she said "I have seen my death!"

Wilhelm Conrad Roentgen (1845-1923) was a German scientist who discovered x-rays. This was a great advance for physics and medicine, and it earned Roentgen the Nobel Prize in 1901.

In November 1895, Roentgen made an accidental discovery. He was studying how electricity passed through a kind of gas. He was looking for cathode rays. But he accidentally found that when cathode rays hit a...