British Culture Minister Ben Bradshaw holds a vintage dental x-ray (dated 1919) image of a human jaw, during a photocall at London's Science Museum, on November 4, 2009. The X-ray was named the most important modern scientific achievement Wednesday in a poll conducted for Britain's Science Museum, beating Apollo spacecraft and DNA. Nearly 50,000 members of the public voted in the museum or online on 10 of the greatest achievements in science, technology and engineering selected by the museum curators. Getty Images logo Getty Images 1 month ago

British Culture Minister Ben Bradshaw holds a vintage dental x-ray (dated 1919) image of a human jaw, during a photocall at London's Science Museum, on November 4, 2009. The X-ray was named the most important modern scientific achievement Wednesday in a poll conducted for Britain's Science Museum, beating Apollo spacecraft and DNA. Nearly 50,000 members of the public voted in the museum or online on 10 of the greatest achievements in science, technology and engineering selected by the museum curators.

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  1. LONDON, ENGLAND - NOVEMBER 04: Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, Ben Bradshaw speaks before a photocall at the Science Museum on November 4, 2009 in London, England. The Science museum is celebrating 100 years of science where the X-RAY machine has been voted the most important invention as voted for by the public.
  2. LONDON, ENGLAND - OCTOBER 29: Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, Ben Bradshaw attends the Closing Gala Afterparty for 'Nowhere Boy' during the Times BFI 53rd London Film Festival at One Marylebone on October 29, 2009 in London, England.
  3. LONDON, ENGLAND - OCTOBER 27: Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, Ben Bradshaw arrives for the weekly cabinet meeting on October 27, 2009 in London, England. Speculation surrounds Gordon Brown this week after Downing Street dismissed claims that the Prime Minister is lobbying for former PM Tony Blair to become European president.
  4. LONDON, ENGLAND - OCTOBER 20: Ben Bradshaw, the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, throws an apple in the air as he leaves Downing Street after the weekly Cabinet meeting on October 20, 2009 in London, England. Members of the Cabinet were given apples during their meeting ahead of tomorrow's National Apple Day in Britain. The Cabinet is expected to have discussed the forthcoming appearance of BNP leader Nick Griffin's appearance on the BBC political programme 'Question Time' on Thursday alongside Justice Secretary Jack Straw.
  5. BRIGHTON, ENGLAND - SEPTEMBER 29: Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, Ben Bradshaw (l) listens to a speech to the Labour Party Conference on September 29, 2009 in Brighton, England. Party officials and delegates are gathering in the seaside coastal resort for their last conference before the general election in 2010.
  6. Britain's Foreign Secretary David Miliband (L), Secretary of State, Department for Culture, Media & Sport Ben Bradshaw (C) and Business Secretary Peter Mandelson are pictured at the annual Labour Party Conference at the Brighton Centre, in Brighton, southern England, on September 28, 2009. Britain's beleaguered ruling Labour Party promised tough new action on bankers' bonuses Monday, as it fights for its life ahead of general elections next year. Prime Minister Gordon Brown was forced to spend the first day of his party's annual conference on Sunday fending off questions about his health.
  7. LONDON - SEPTEMBER 24: Business Secretary Peter Mandelson (C) applauds with Culture Secretary Ben Bradshaw and pop singer Leona Lewis as they listen to music sung by students at the British school of performing arts September 24, 2009 in Croydon, England. Mandelson visited the school to support the next generation of creative talent.

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  1. LONDON, ENGLAND - NOVEMBER 04: Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, Ben Bradshaw speaks before a photocall at the Science Museum on November 4, 2009 in London, England. The Science Museum is celebrating a century of science with a public poll that has voted the X Ray machine as the most important invention of the last 100 years.
  2. British Culture Minister Ben Bradshaw holds a vintage dental x-ray (dated 1919) image of a human jaw, during a photocall at London's Science Museum, on November 4, 2009. The X-ray was named the most important modern scientific achievement Wednesday in a poll conducted for Britain's Science Museum, beating Apollo spacecraft and DNA. Nearly 50,000 members of the public voted in the museum or online on 10 of the greatest achievements in science, technology and engineering selected by the museum curators.
  3. British Culture Minister Ben Bradshaw holds a vintage dental x-ray (dated 1919) image of a human jaw, during a photocall at London's Science Museum, on November 4, 2009. The X-ray was named the most important modern scientific achievement Wednesday in a poll conducted for Britain's Science Museum, beating Apollo spacecraft and DNA. Nearly 50,000 members of the public voted in the museum or online on 10 of the greatest achievements in science, technology and engineering selected by the museum curators.
  4. LONDON, ENGLAND - NOVEMBER 04: Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, Ben Bradshaw speaks before a photocall at the Science Museum on November 4, 2009 in London, England. The Science museum is celebrating 100 years of science where the X-RAY machine has been voted the most important invention as voted for by the public.
  5. LONDON, ENGLAND - NOVEMBER 04: Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, Ben Bradshaw holds a plate of dental X-RAY'S from 1919 during a photocall at the Science Museum on November 4, 2009 in London, England. The Science museum is celebrating 100 years of science where the X-RAY machine has been voted the most important invention as voted for by the public.
  6. LONDON, ENGLAND - NOVEMBER 04: Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, Ben Bradshaw holds a plate of dental X-RAY'S from 1919 during a photocall at the Science Museum on November 4, 2009 in London, England. The Science museum is celebrating 100 years of science where the X-RAY machine has been voted the most important invention as voted for by the public.
  7. LONDON, ENGLAND - NOVEMBER 04: Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, Ben Bradshaw holds a plate of dental X-RAY'S from 1919 during a photocall at the Science Museum on November 4, 2009 in London, England. The Science museum is celebrating 100 years of science where the X-RAY machine has been voted the most important invention as voted for by the public.
  8. LONDON, ENGLAND - OCTOBER 29: Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, Ben Bradshaw attends the Closing Gala Afterparty for 'Nowhere Boy' during the Times BFI 53rd London Film Festival at One Marylebone on October 29, 2009 in London, England.
  9. LONDON, ENGLAND - OCTOBER 27: Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, Ben Bradshaw arrives for the weekly cabinet meeting on October 27, 2009 in London, England. Speculation surrounds Gordon Brown this week after Downing Street dismissed claims that the Prime Minister is lobbying for former PM Tony Blair to become European president.
  10. LONDON, ENGLAND - OCTOBER 20: Ben Bradshaw, the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, throws an apple in the air as he leaves Downing Street after the weekly Cabinet meeting on October 20, 2009 in London, England. Members of the Cabinet were given apples during their meeting ahead of tomorrow's National Apple Day in Britain. The Cabinet is expected to have discussed the forthcoming appearance of BNP leader Nick Griffin's appearance on the BBC political programme 'Question Time' on Thursday alongside Justice Secretary Jack Straw.
  11. LONDON, ENGLAND - OCTOBER 20: Ben Bradshaw, the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, throws an apple in the air as he leaves Downing Street after the weekly Cabinet meeting on October 20, 2009 in London, England. The Cabinet is expected to have discussed the forthcoming appearance of BNP leader Nick Griffin's appearance on the BBC political programme 'Question Time' on Thursday alongside Justice Secretary Jack Straw.
  12. BRIGHTON, ENGLAND - SEPTEMBER 29: Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, Ben Bradshaw listens to a speech to the Labour Party Conference on September 29, 2009 in Brighton, England. Party officials and delegates are gathering in the seaside coastal resort for their last conference before the general election in 2010.
  13. BRIGHTON, ENGLAND - SEPTEMBER 29: Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, Ben Bradshaw (l) listens to a speech to the Labour Party Conference on September 29, 2009 in Brighton, England. Party officials and delegates are gathering in the seaside coastal resort for their last conference before the general election in 2010.
  14. BRIGHTON, ENGLAND - SEPTEMBER 29: Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, Ben Bradshaw delivers a speech to the Labour Party Conference on September 29, 2009 in Brighton, England. Party officials and delegates are gathering in the seaside coastal resort for their last conference before the general election in 2010.
  15. Britain's Foreign Secretary David Miliband (L), Secretary of State, Department for Culture, Media & Sport Ben Bradshaw (C) and Business Secretary Peter Mandelson are pictured at the annual Labour Party Conference at the Brighton Centre, in Brighton, southern England, on September 28, 2009. Britain's beleaguered ruling Labour Party promised tough new action on bankers' bonuses Monday, as it fights for its life ahead of general elections next year. Prime Minister Gordon Brown was forced to spend the first day of his party's annual conference on Sunday fending off questions about his health.
  16. BRIGHTON, ENGLAND - SEPTEMBER 28: Business Secretary Lord Mandelson (R) talks with Culture Secretary Ben Bradshaw, sitting behind Foreign Secretary David Miliband, during the Labour Party Conference on September 28, 2009 in Brighton, England. The Chancellor Alistair Darling said that banks should cut bonuses in his speech to delegates.

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