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1 day ago · Wilhelm Conrad Röntgen (born March 27, 1845, Lennep, Prussia [now Remscheid, Germany]—died February 10, 1923, Munich, Germany) was a physicist who received the first Nobel Prize for Physics, in 1901, for his discovery of X-rays, which heralded the age of modern physics and revolutionized diagnostic medicine. Wilhelm Conrad Röntgen.
Nov 24, 2009 · On November 8, 1895, physicist Wilhelm Conrad Röntgen (1845-1923) becomes the first person to observe X-rays, a significant scientific advancement that would ultimately benefit a variety...
Wilhelm Conrad Röntgen (/ ˈ r ɛ n t ɡ ə n,-dʒ ə n, ˈ r ʌ n t-/; German pronunciation: [ˈvɪlhɛlm ˈʁœntɡən] ⓘ; 27 March 1845 – 10 February 1923) was a German mechanical engineer and physicist, who, on 8 November 1895, produced and detected electromagnetic radiation in a wavelength range known as X-rays or Röntgen rays, an ...
November 2001 (Volume 10, Number 10) This Month in Physics History. November 8, 1895: Roentgen's Discovery of X-Rays. Wilhelm Conrad Roentgen. One of the earliest photographic plates from Roentgen's experiments was a film of his wife, Bertha's hand with a ring, produced on Friday, November 8, 1895.
Oct 5, 2017 · The first X-ray image, “Hand mit Ringen” by Wilhelm Conrad Roentgen, 1895. Wellcome Library, London/CC BY 4.0. Those seven weeks that produced the image had started when Wilhelm noticed...
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Röntgen’s name, however, is chiefly associated with his discovery of the rays that he called X-rays. In 1895 he was studying the phenomena accompanying the passage of an electric current through a gas of extremely low pressure.
Discovery of the X-ray: A New Kind of Invisible Light. November 8 is World Radiography Day, the anniversary of Wilhelm Röentgen's discovery of "a new kind of invisible light" -- the X-ray. Röentgen discovered X-rays accidentally while doing experiments on fluorescence produced in vacuum tubes.
