• HootinNHollerin@lemmy.world
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    [A x-ray operator] In his autobiography he maintained “my courage is my work. I treat patients who suffer more or are encumbered more than me, and so I go on. By helping others I help myself”. He went on to predict “I will die from the effects of early uncontrolled exposures to X-rays. And like many of the early pioneers, I too, will die a victim of natural science, a martyr to the X-rays.”

    Also Roentgen (who discovered x-rays) refused to patent in order to expedite the benefit to humanity.