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 ...
Circa 1890: an X-Ray view of the hand and wrist of a four year-old child Circa 1890: an X-Ray view of the hand and wrist of a four year-old childGeorge Eastman House / Getty Images No one was ...
In a dim German laboratory in 1895, Wilhelm Röntgen’s accidental discovery of X-rays cracked open a new era in medicine, letting humanity see inside itself for the first time. In 1895, inside a ...
From Röntgen to Fermi: the origins of radiation medicine. Fifty years of radiotherapy that, from being a hopeful cure ...
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, ...
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 ...