Resources

• general
  • Generation of Electrons, Electromagnetic Radiation and Neutrons; Absorption, Fluorescence and Detection, Joe Smith, University of Chicago
• historical
  • general
    • Deutsches Röntgen-Museum, Remscheid
    • Historical Overview of the Discovery of the X-Ray, Joyce Calarco, Yale-New Haven Teachers Institute
    • X-Rays (photos of antique apparatus), Museum of Physics, University of Queensland
  • nobel foundation
    • Nobel Prize in Physics 1901, Wilhelm Conrad Röntgen
    • Nobel Prize in Physics 1927, Arthur Compton
    • Nobel Prize in Physics 1930, Chandrasekhara Raman
  • publications
    • Röntgen,Wilhelm Conrad. On a New Kind of Rays, Nature. Vol. 53 (1896): 274-277. (Another copy can be found here.)
    • Compton, Arthur H. A Quantum Theory of the Scattering of X-rays by Light Elements. Physical Review. Vol. 21, No. 5 (May 1923): 483-502.
    • Raman and Krishnan. A New Type of Secondary Radiation. Nature. Vol. 121 (1928): 501-502.
• radiography
  • Nick Veasey, X-Ray Photographer
    • Exposing the invisible, Video on TED.com (2009)
• radiology
  • History of Radiology (RealAudio slideshow), Scott D. Klioze, University of Florida
  • A Century of Radiology, Radiology Centennial, Penn State University Penn State College of Medicine
• solar sails
  • Solar Sailing, The Planetary Society
  • Union pour la Promotion de la Propulsion Photonique
• spectroscopy
  • X-Ray Fluorescence, M. Matloc kM. Issa, A. Hutchinson, University of Kentucky
  • X-Ray Periodic Table, Pathikrit Bandyopadhyay, Illinois Institute of Technology
• synchrotron radiation
  • Advanced Light Source, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
  • Advanced Photon Source, Argonne National Laboratory
  • Berliner Elektronenspeicherring-Gesellschaft für Synchrotronstrahlung (BESSY)
  • Center for Advanced Microstructures & Devices, Louisiana State University (LSU)
  • European Synchrotron Radiation Facility
  • Hamburger Synchrotronstrahlungslabor
  • Laboratório Nacional de Luz Síncrotron
  • National Synchrotron Light Source, Brookhaven National Laboratory
  • Stanford Synchrotron Radiation Laboratory
  • Synchrotron-light for Experimental Science and Applications in the Middle East (SESAME)
  • Swiss Light Source, Paul Scherrer Institut
  • Synchrotron Radiation Center, University of Wisconsin, Madison
  • Synchrotron Radiation Source, Daresbury Laboratory
  • Synchrotron Ultraviolet Radiation Facilty (SURF), National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST)
• x-ray tubes
  • US Patent 1,203,495 (improved x-ray tube), William Coolidge, General Electric, 1913.
  • X-Ray Tubes, Kilokat's Antique Light Bulb Site