Abstract
Why is Physic World not celebrating the centenary of the discovery of X-rays? Surely the discovery that won the first Nobel Prize in Physics – a mere six years after Röntgen stunned the world with photographs of human bones and other "invisible" objects – should be feted in these pages. And it is certainly cause for celebration that, thanks to synchrotron radiation sources, the world now has a copious supply of X-ray photons for a wide range of experiments in physics, chemistry, biology, materials and beyond.