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roentgen
1896, in
Roentgen rays
"X-rays," in recognition of German physicist Wilhem Conrad
Röntgen
(1845-1923), who discovered X-rays in 1895. As a unit of exposure to radiation, it is attested from 1922, proposed in French in 1921.
