Wilhelm Roentgen, 50, professor of physics at Wurzburg University, Bavaria, took the X-ray of his wife Anna Bertha's hand on December 22, 1895, after a eureka moment in his lab.

Wilhelm Roentgen News from United Press International. On March 27, 1933, the U.S. Embassy in Berlin reported that physical mistreatment of Jews in Germany has been "virtually terminated." ...

Jan. 5, 1896: An Austrian newspaper reports Wilhelm Roentgen’s discovery of a new type of radiation, which becomes known as an X-ray. Sign Up for Our Ideas Newsletter POV.

X-ray photograph taken by Wilhelm Roentgen of his wife's hand in December 1895. SSPL—Getty Images. The way the story goes, one of the earliest X-ray photographs ever taken (at left here) was not ...

Roentgen published his initial findings in late December of 1895. It took a matter of weeks before such news spread around the world and X-rays became the media sensation of the day.

In December of 1895, Wilhelm Röntgen revealed the bones of his wife’s hand in the first X-ray photograph. by Allison Meier May 1, 2017 May 1, 2017. Subscribe to our newsletter.

With his discovery of x-rays in 1895, Wilhelm Conrad Roentgen fathered the field of diagnostic radiology. In that era of medicine, informed consent was not part of the medical lexicon; however, in ...

In November, 1895, Wilhelm Röntgen made an unusual discovery: He’d taken a glass vacuum tube, through which he’d run a high voltage currency, and covered it in black cardboard so none of its ...

Wilhelm Roentgen isn't trying to reinvent the wheel, or discover the X-ray, while toiling in his lab this day. But discover the X-ray is exactly what he does.

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 ...

LOOKING backward we can see very clearly the monumental character of the discovery of the X-rays by Wilhelm Conrad Roöntgen in November 1895. This was truly the beginning of the ‘new physics ...