spider monkey
spider monkey Medium-sized, arboreal (tree-dwelling)
monkey found from
s Mexico to
se Brazil. It has long, spidery legs, a fully prehensile tail, and is an agile climber, using the tail as a fifth limb. It eats mainly fruit and nuts. Genera Ateles and Brachyteles.
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November surprise.(Jack & Jill's Health Heroes)(Wilhelm Roentgen, the man who discovered the X-Ray)
Magazine article from: Jack & Jill; 12/1/2002; 700+ words
; ...November, 1895. Physics Professor Wilhelm Roentgen (RENT-gen) is studying rays...through flesh, but are blocked by Roentgen's bones, shadowing them on...dangers of another sort. In 1901, Wilhelm Conrad Roentgen was awarded the first...
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MEDICINE GAINED A NEW WAY TO SEE
Newspaper article from: The Boston Globe; 11/6/1995; ; 700+ words
; ...his discovery, that Professor Wilhelm Conrad Roentgen {pronounced Ren'ken}, disclosed...and president of the American Roentgen Ray Society. Within a year...who touched off this frenzy, Wilhelm Roentgen, was born in Lennep...
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Ivan Pului, the discoverer of X-rays
Newspaper article from: Ukrainian Weekly, The; 7/9/2000; ; 700+ words
; ...Jan Puluj (Ivan Puliui) or a German physicist Wilhelm Conrad Roentgen, the 1901 Nobel Prize winner? To give a name to...discover it. It is this logic that made the name of Wilhelm Conrad Roentgen immortal. In the January 1896 issue of...
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November surprise.(Jack & Jill's Health Heroes)
Magazine article from: Jack & Jill; 3/1/2006; ; 622 words
; ...November, 1895. Physics Professor Wilhelm Roentgen (RENT-gen) is studying rays...through flesh, but are blocked by Roentgen's bones, shadowing them on...dangers of another sort. In 1901, Wilhelm Conrad Roentgen was awarded the first...
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Radiation safety in fluoroscopy. (Directed Reading).
Magazine article from: Radiologic Technology; 7/1/2002; ; 700+ words
; ...Radiation The German physicist Wilhelm Conrad Roentgen discovered x-rays in 1895...enclosed in black cardboard. Roentgen noticed that light escaping the...with barium platinocyanide. Roentgen also noticed that various objects...
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Archive: Ray of hope for the future of medicine; Chris Upton looks back over the life of Moseley GP John Hall-Edwards - who suffered because of his own medical discovery.
Newspaper article from: The Birmingham Post (England); 5/19/2001; 700+ words
; ...The breakthrough was made by Wilhelm Conrad Roentgen in his laboratory at the University...public lecture in January 1896. Roentgen had been investigating the properties...extraordinary discovery of all: if Roentgen placed his hand between the rays...
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History corner
Magazine article from: The Journal of Nuclear Medicine; 10/1/1998; ; 700+ words
; ...your tax advisor. Asteroids, Roentgen and Becquerel As part of the...celebration of the discovery of x-rv Wilhelm Conrad Roentgen (1895) and of radioac tivity...to name , two asteroids after Roentgen and Becquerel in recognition...
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Radiology websites: Conventional radiology.(Web Review)(Website overview)
Magazine article from: Indian Journal of Radiology and Imaging; 10/1/2008; ; 700+ words
; ...historical value relating to Roentgen's discovery of x...discharge tubes, Prof. Roentgen's discovery a new...investigations which led Dr Roentgen to write his first paper...Discovery of X-rays,' 'Wilhelm Conrad Roentgen,' 'Roentgen...
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Extraoral x-ray film continues to evolve, improve
Magazine article from: Dental Assistant; 9/1/2003; ; 700+ words
; ...discovered in 1895 in Wurzburg, Germany, by physicist Wilhelm Conrad Roentgen. Roentgen was experimenting with vacuum tubes in a dim room...black paper. It was this experiment that led Roentgen to the discovery of x-rays, because he knew...
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Extraoral x-ray film continues to evolve, improve.
Magazine article from: The Dental Assistant; 9/1/2003; ; 700+ words
; ...discovered in 1895 in Wurzburg, Germany, by physicist Wilhelm Conrad Roentgen. Roentgen was experimenting with vacuum tubes in a dim room...black paper. It was this experiment that led Roentgen to the discovery of x-rays, because he knew...
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Wilhelm Conrad Roentgen
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
Wilhelm Conrad Roentgen , 1845-1923, German physicist. His notable research in many fields...overshadowed by his discovery (1895) of a short-wave ray, the Roentgen ray, or X ray, for which he received the first Nobel Prize in Physics...
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Röntgen (Roentgen), Wilhelm Conrad
Dictionary entry from: Complete Dictionary of Scientific Biography
R ö NTGEN (ROENTGEN), WILHELM CONRAD ( b . Lennep im Bergischen [now part of Remscheid], Rhine...physics . R ö ntgen was the only son of Friedrich Conrad R ö ntgen, a cloth manufacturer and merchant of Lennep...
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Wilhelm Conrad Röntgen
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
Wilhelm Conrad Röntgen see Roentgen .
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Röntgen, Wilhelm
Book article from: Chemistry: Foundations and Applications
Röntgen, Wilhelm GERMAN PHYSICIST1845–1923 In 1901 Wilhelm Conrad Röntgen (or Roentgen) was the recipient of the first...Bibliography Röntgen, Wilhelm (1896). "On a New Kind of...
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Radiation Injuries
Encyclopedia entry from: Gale Encyclopedia of Alternative Medicine
...others to effects on living tissue. The roentgen, named after Wilhelm Conrad Roentgen, who discovered x rays in 1895, measures...tissue. The rem measures tissue response. A roentgen generates about a rad of effect and produces...
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