【来源及含义】German: radiation, "x-ray"; X-ray; 1896, translation of German X-strahl, from X, "algebraic symbol for an unknown quantity", + Strahl, "beam, ray"
【相关描述】So called after its discoverer, a German physicist, Wilhelm Konrad Roentgen [1845-1923], who discovered roentgen rays [x-rays] in 1895; winner of the Nobel prize in physics in 1901.
【相关词根词缀】;Related "roentgen, x-ray" units: ;Roentgen Biography; ;Chemical Element: roentgenium.
【同源单词】bioroentgenography, cineradiograhy, cineroentgenography, fluororoentgenography, kiloroentgen, microroentgen