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Review

Dr. W. C. Röntgen. By Otto Glasser, 2nd ed., pp.169, 17 illus. 1958. (Oxford, Chas. C. Thomas/Blackwell), 34s.

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Otto Glasser's authoritative and fascinating biography of W. C. Röntgen was first published in 1945 to mark the centenary of Röntgen's birth and the 50th anniversary of the discovery of X rays. The second edition is in the main a reprint of the first, but a small amount of new material has been added and some of the old illustrations have been replaced by better ones. A particularly valuable feature of the book is the inclusion of new translations of the three famous papers. Two of these, entitled "On a New Kind of Rays", were published in the Sitzungsberichte, of the Physical Medical Society of Würzburg on December 28, 1895, and March 9, 1896, whilst the third was sent to the Prussian Academy of Sciences and published on March 10, 1897, under the title "Further Observations on the Properties of X-rays".