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Fantastically Wrong: The Imaginary Radiation That Shocked Science and Ruined Its ‘Discoverer’
In the winter of 1903, just eight years after the monumental discovery of X-rays, a French scientist by the name of René Blondlot stumbled upon a brand new form of radiation. He called them N-rays, after his town of Nancy, perhaps because naming them R-rays after himself would have been both unwieldy and self-absorbed.
In the winter of 1903, just eight years after the monumental discovery of X-rays, a French scientist by the name of René Blondlot stumbled upon a brand new form of radiation. He called them N-rays, after his town of Nancy, perhaps because naming them R-rays after himself would have been both unwieldy and self-absorbed.
Source: Wired
Posted on: Wednesday, Sep 03, 2014, 7:56am
Views: 1523
Posted on: Wednesday, Sep 03, 2014, 7:56am
Views: 1523
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