USP 1995 Inglês - Questões

In December 1895 the German physicist Wilhelm Conrad Röntgen demonstrated the first X-ray pictures, among them that of the left hand of Mrs. Röntgen. Within a few weeks the news of the discovery spread throughout the world, and the penetrating properties of the rays were soon exploited for medical diagnosis without immediate realization of possible deleterious effects.

The first reports of X-ray injury to various human tissues and to vision came in 1896. In that same year Elihu Thomson, the physicist, deliberately exposed one of his fingers to Xray and provided accurate scientific observations on the development of Röntgen-ray burns.

(Encyclopaedia Britannica)

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A descoberta feita por Wilhelm Conrad Röntgen:

In December 1895 the German physicist Wilhelm Conrad Röntgen demonstrated the first X-ray pictures, among them that of the left hand of Mrs. Röntgen. Within a few weeks the news of the discovery spread throughout the world, and the penetrating properties of the rays were soon exploited for medical diagnosis without immediate realization of possible deleterious effects.

The first reports of X-ray injury to various human tissues and to vision came in 1896. In that same year Elihu Thomson, the physicist, deliberately exposed one of his fingers to Xray and provided accurate scientific observations on the development of Röntgen-ray burns.

(Encyclopaedia Britannica)

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In December 1895 the German physicist Wilhelm Conrad Röntgen demonstrated the first X-ray pictures, among them that of the left hand of Mrs. Röntgen. Within a few weeks the news of the discovery spread throughout the world, and the penetrating properties of the rays were soon exploited for medical diagnosis without immediate realization of possible deleterious effects.

The first reports of X-ray injury to various human tissues and to vision came in 1896. In that same year Elihu Thomson, the physicist, deliberately exposed one of his fingers to Xray and provided accurate scientific observations on the development of Röntgen-ray burns.

(Encyclopaedia Britannica)

Elihu Thomson utilizou um de seus dedos para:

Women in ancient Pompeii were not all like the classical beauties depicted on the city’s famous frescoes(*. A substantial minority of those who died when Mount Vesuvius erupted in AD 79 were obese, a bit on the hairy side and would have suffered from headaches and a form of diabetes, according to Estelle Lazer, an archaeologist and physical anthropologist at the University of Sidney. She says about 10 per cent of the city’s women would have suffered from these systems because they had a minor hormonal disorder called hyperostosis frontalis interna(HFI).

("New Scientist", September 24, 1994)

(* frescoes - afrescos (modalidade de pintura mural)

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A priest known by his Resistance code name Abbé Pierre awakened the conscience of France in 1954 when he seized the microphone of Radio Luxembourg and told of a woman who had frozen to death in a Paris street clutching a notice of eviction. His appeal for help — for blankets, stoves, tents — altered French thinking about the homeless. Through continued outspokenness and charitable work he influenced subsequent public policy, and today polls show Abbé Pierre, founder of the international charity Companions of Emmaus, to be the nation’s most admired person.

(Time, May 9» 1994)

(* eviction – despejo

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O padre conhecido como Abade Pierre