No one was initially more skeptical of the existence of X-rays than Wilhelm Roentgen — the man who discovered them. One day in late 1895, the German physicist was preparing to begin an experiment with ...

1895: German physicist Wilhelm Roentgen is working in his laboratory in Würzburg when he accidentally discovers the X-ray. Roentgen was conducting experiments with a Crookes tube -- basically a glass ...

Recently I had an article emailed to me for consideration for Semelka's Spin that was written by a first-year medical student at the University of Manitoba, Canada; this student is planning to pursue ...

To the casual observer, the X-ray of a hand, seen below, appears unremarkable. However, it is in fact the world's first X-ray taken of a human, in December 1895 - and belongs to the wife of the man ...

X-RAY therapy has been employed in the treatment of acne vulgaris since Gautier 1 reported its efficacy in 1897. Pusey 2 was the first to utilize this mode of therapy in the United States. Technics ...

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 ...

IIIF provides researchers rich metadata and media viewing options for comparison of works across cultural heritage collections. Visit the IIIF page to learn more. This is one of the first x-ray tubes ...

Wilhelm Konrad Roentgen, discoverer of the X-rays, who died in February, never tried to capitalize his discovery and died poor. The Nobel prize in physics (about $40,000), conferred on him in 1901, he ...

IN papers on secondary Röntgen radiation and polarised Röntgen radiation I have shown that all the phenomena of secondary radiation (as indicated by an electroscope placed several centimetres from the ...