The history of neuroradiology: an Australian perspective.

On December 28, 1895, Wilhelm Roentgen presented his classic written preliminary communication regarding x-rays to the president of the Physical Medical Society of Wurzburg, Germany, and 9 days later his discovery was announced to the world. Despite a lack of modern communication methods, within months of Roentgen’s discovery, human radiographs were being produced in Australia by individual scientists, including the first known documentation by Thomas Ranken Lyle on March 4, 1896 (1), and others such as W. L. Bragg, A. L. Rogers, S. Barbour, and W. T. Rowe in Adelaide on June 1, 1896 (Oliphant Sir M, personal communication) (Fig 1). Professor W. L. Bragg continued research in x-ray spectra and the elucidation of the structure of crystals for which he was corecipient of the Nobel prize in 1915.