In a dim German laboratory in 1895, Wilhelm Röntgen’s accidental discovery of X-rays cracked open a new era in medicine, letting humanity see inside itself for the first time. In 1895, inside a ...
Wilhelm Röntgen, “Hand with Rings,” a print of one of the first X-ray photographs showing the left hand of Röntgen’s wife, Anna Bertha Ludwig (1895) (via Wellcome Images/Wikimedia) In a series for the ...
X-Rays are the amazing bits of the electro-magnetic spectrum that allow us to see through many objects — including human soft tissue. But when they were first publicly demonstrated on Jan. 23, 1896 — ...
Wilhelm Conrad Röntgen (or Roentgen), a German physicist, was the first person to systematically produce and detect electromagnetic radiation in a wavelength range today known as X-rays, or Röntgen ...
Accidents in medicine: The idea sends chills down your spine as you conjure up thoughts of misdiagnoses, mistakenly prescribed drugs, and wrongly amputated limbs. Yet while accidents in the examining ...
He was so modest and altruistic that in 1901, when he was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics, he donated the fifty thousand crowns of the prize to the university where he worked, refused to sell the ...
One hundred and twenty years ago this weekend, physicist Wilhelm Röntgen found himself messing about at his home in Würzburg, Germany, with a Crookes tube and a sheet of paper painted with barium ...
THE second edition of this excellent work was called for because the first was unexpectedly exhausted within three months, and we congratulate the author upon his deserved success. Only those ...
REFERRING to two letters in your last issue, p. 388, it is somewhat disconcerting to have Prof. Röntgen's original experiment—viz, the observation of shadows thrown on a barium-platino-cyanide ...
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