On November 8 that year, her husband, German physicist Wilhelm Conrad Roentgen, had been conducting an experiment in his lab - the effects of passing an electrical current through gases at low ...

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 ...

Thomson remarked in his Rede lecture on July 10, 1896, “appealed to the strongest of all human attributes, namely, curiosity”. Wilhelm Conrad Röntgen: and the Early History of the Roentgen Rays.

When the German physicist Wilhelm Conrad Röntgen’s announced his discovery of the x-ray in December of 1895, he was lauded on the front page of just about every newspaper in the world.

On this day in 1895, scientist Wilhelm Conrad Röntgen published a paper called ‘On a New Kind of Rays.’ It was the first scientific paper to describe x-rays. Only six days earlier ...

When Wilhelm Conrad Roentgen reported his discovery of X-rays in December 1895, he set off a firestorm of interest in taking X-rays that spread across the world. Almost immediately, physicians ...

Credit: Wilhelm Conrad Röntgen / SpaceX/Fram2 In 1895, when German physics professor Wihelm Röntgen was experimenting with cathode rays, he accidentally discovered what we know today as X-rays.

On the evening of January 12, 1896, three Davidson College juniors bribed a janitor and sneaked into a physics laboratory, carrying with them a cadaver’s finger and other strange items.

The injury occurred just a few weeks after German professor Wilhelm Conrad Roentgen noticed a faint glow on a fluorescent screen in his lab while experimenting with cathode rays and a glass vacuum ...

Last month marked the 175th anniversary of the birth of German physicist Wilhelm Conrad Röntgen (1845–1923), who won the 1901 Nobel prize for his discovery of X-rays. His work is still a ...