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 ...

When Goethe wanted to help his readers imagine a fairy palace, he asked them to think about the furniture of David Roentgen (1743–1807). Cabinetmaker to Marie Antoinette, Roentgen was famous for ...

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German physicist Wilhelm Rontgen made a dramatic discovery for which he could not give a name on November 8, 1895. Instead, he used a placeholder letter for the type of ray he had discovered - X-ray.

Wilhelm Röntgen was working alone in his laboratory during late 1895 when he observed an anomalous phenomenon. An observation was made that a fluorescent screen in the laboratory glowed even after the ...

On the night of November 8, 1895, German physicist Wilhelm Conrad Roentgen finished his supper and went to his laboratory to conduct some routine experiments. Roentgen had no way of knowing that, ...

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-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 ...

In case you were puzzled by the odd doodle on Google's home page today, it all traces back to 1895. It was on this day that a German physicist named Wilhelm Conrad Rontgen became the first person to ...

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 ...