History of the X-Ray to the present day

[Inkie]

I have to do a presentation on the history of the x-ray, i can find some information on the discovery of the x-ray but I cant find much info since then to now(the present day)

Does anybody know of any websites or presentations i could take a look at??

[jake-the-peg]

During the 40s and 50s there was a huge enthusiam for x-rays - you could even get them in shoe shops

http://www.orau.org/p...fittingfluor/shoe.htm

X-ray crystallography is a technique for finding the structure of materials from the way they interact with X-rays. This techique was used by Crick and Watson to shot the famous double Helix structure of DNA

This is what the picture looked like

http://ysm.research.y...cles-protein-xray.jpg

in 1978 NASA launched the first X-ray telescope http://en.wikipedia.o.../Einstein_Observatory X-ray observatories give us evidence of balck holes