title: [Contribution of one century of X-rays to medicine].
abstract: In order to commemorate the centenary of the attribution of Nobel prizes in sciences, we present in this article a short description of the interaction of X-rays with materials and a bibliography of 33 Nobel prize winners (6 for medicine, 18 in chemistry and 9 in physics) whose work is connected to applications of X-ray interactions for medical and pharmaceutical purposes, and additionally of 12 Nobel prize winners in physics for their initiative in the discovery of particles which were recently used for medicine.
authors.affiliation: LARN, Facultés Universitaires Notre-Dame de la Paix, Namur, Belgium.
authors.forename: G
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Demortier
authors.forename: C
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Iserentant
mesh_terms: D049672:History, 19th Century; D049673:History, 20th Century; D006801:Humans; D009613:Nobel Prize; D010825:Physics / Q000266:history*; D011859:Radiography / Q000266:history*
vernacular_title: Een eeuw röntgenstralen en haara bijdrage tot de geneeskunde.