Mihran Krikor Kassabian (1870–1910). Textbook author & X-ray martyr

A Textbook of X-Ray Diagnosis

A Textbook of X-Ray Diagnosis

The circumstance which has led to the appearance of the third editor's name on the dedication page is a sad blow to British radiology, for at the time of his death Edward Wing Twining was in the prime of life and one had a right to expect many more years of useful service from him. He however played an important part in the preparation of this volume which was in its final stages at the time of...

Textbook for hard X-ray focusing with Kirkpatrick-Baez optics

1. Background Currently, grand-scale synchrotron radiation facilities, where high-quality X-ray sources are available in wide energy ranges from the softto hardX-ray regions, have significantly advanced the performance characteristics of analytical technologies using the fluorescence, absorption and diffraction effects of X-rays in various materials. The application of X-ray microscopy with the...

palestine from the martyr author ghassan kanafani’s point of view

ghassan kanafani was the author, critic, poet, martyr and playwriter who studies human being issues by his stories. he condemns whatever causes palestine’s tragedy in his “men in the sun” novel. there is no waste and extra word or sentence in this novel and the author does not recourse slogan and his position is clear among his novel. in this novel the men can understand cruelty under the gover...

Forty Years of X-Ray Binaries

In 2012 it was forty years ago that the discovery of the first X-ray binary Centaurus X-3 became known. That same year it was discovered that apart from the High-Mass X-ray Binaries (HMXBs) there are also Low-Mass X-ray Binaries (LMXBs), and that Cygnus X-1 is most probably a black hole. By 1975 also the new class of Be/X-ray binaries was discovered. After this it took 28 years before ESAs INTE...