Radiation-induced thyroid cancer: The Chicago experience

In 1901 Karl Wilhelm Roentgen, a physics professor at Wurzburg, Germany, received the first Nobel Prize in physics for the discovery of x-rays in experiments, which began 6 years earlier in 1895. The invisible cathode rays generated were found to cause a fluorescence on a barium platinocyanide screen and, surprisingly, to outline the bones of his wife’s hand on this photographic film (). By 1896, radiographs were being taken for clinical purposes and their diagnostic possibilities were quickly exploited

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Radiation-induced thyroid cancer: The Chicago experience

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