Who created the first X-Ray? and other random stuff

Who created the first x-ray in the US?

Arthur Willis Goodspeed at the University of Pennsylvania 1890 predating Roentgen by 5 years.

Only after Roentgen's discovery, did they realize the explanation for the phenomenon they observed.

http://repository.upenn.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?filename=0&article=1006&context=penn_history&type=additional

What did the Russo-Japanese War have to do with our understanding of visual fields?

See this reference from Scientific American Sept 1988 (when I was starting my neuro fellowship)

http://www.sciencecore.columbia.edu/demo/web/resources/readings/

http://www.sciencecore.columbia.edu/demo/web/resources/readings/cortex.pdf

(under construction)

I heard about this article from a neuropathologist. Neat stuff.

"The brain as a sieve"