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…Radiation Therapy Wilhelm Conrad Roentgen discovered the X-Ray in 1895. Since then, the treatment has been used to successfully treat cancer patients. The process uses small amounts of very high-energy radiation to destroy the cancerous cells…

…. The lectures were published as discharge of electricity through gases (1897). On his return from America, he achieved the best work of his life. An original study of cathode rays culminating in the discovery of the electron, this was announced to the royal…

…The reflecting telescope uses a precisely curved mirror instead of a lens to collect starlight. The mirror is concave and is, shaped like the inside of a dish—a shape that brings reflected light waves to a focus at a point above the mirror. Light rays from distant…

…of the elements by chemical properties and increasing atomic mass. Experimentation with uranium lead to many discoversies such as the X-ray by Wilhelm Röntgen, on November 8, 1895. Wilhelm Röntgen, was awarded the first Nobel prize in 1901 for the development…

…being run by the Mafia, and that his car and house was bugged. He found out about all of this from the FBI and they wanted to get them information about the firm, and in return, they would give him money and they would get his brother Ray out of jail. Soon…

…to focus light so that one is able to see the images in his or her environment. Light enters the eye through a transparent shield called the cornea. It is attached to the outer wall of the eye. The cornea focuses light rays so that they go in a straight line…

…. Limits on the knowledge that can be extracted from situations are reduced with technology. X-rays; these are waves of radiation of a very high frequency which are not absorbed as well by bodily tissues as radiation of frequencies such as that of visible…

…: the progress made by X-ray crystallographers in studying organic macromolecules; the growing evidence supplied by geneticists that it was DNA, not protein, in chromosomes that was responsible for heredity; Erwin Chargaff's experimental finding that there are equal…

…to another. The radiation you receive from gamma Rays, X-rays, visible light and radio waves. This radiation contacts your body every day. The radiation that you don't come in contact with everyday is the fallout that you might receive from a nuclear power…

…The greenhouse effect is when infrared rays are reflected to the earth's surface and are trapped by the atmosphere. The atmosphere is being destroyed and more of these rays are being trapped. Hence, the earth is getting warmer, and as the temperature…