Helena Weiss, George B. Griffenhagen and Bane
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Date: August 24, 1956
Citation: Smithsonian Institution Archives, Record Unit 95, Box 57, Folder: 4
Helena Weiss (Chief, Division of Correspondence and Documents, 1948-1956, Registrar, Office of the Registrar, 1956-1971), signs paperwork during the presentation of the Roentgen X-ray tube. George B. Griffenhagen, curator of the Division of Medicine and Public Health, stands to Weiss' left and a man identified only as Bane stands on the other side of the desk.
Historic Images of the Smithsonian
The Roentgen X-ray tube pictured, is one of the first x-ray tubes used by Wilhelm Konrad Roentgen who, in 1895, discovered a new radiation called "X-rays" or Roentgen rays.
Smithsonian Institution Archives, Record Unit 95, Box 57, Folder: 4
Institutional History Division, Smithsonian Archives, 600 Maryland Avenue, SW, Washington, D.C. 20024-2520, SIHistory@si.edu
August 24, 1956
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SIA2009-4253
Number of Images: 1; Color: Black and white; Size: 5w x 4h; Type of Image: Group; Medium: Photographic print