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.

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 ...

Roentgen's Real Legacy, In the Age of Informed Consent . Richard C. Semelka, MD; Suzanne Ronald, MD. Disclosures. July 06, 2006. Recently I had an article emailed to me for consideration for ...

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 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.

No other late sequelae of roentgen therapy were observed. Properly administered roentgen treatment of acne, given with accepted technic, may be expected to result in the cure of 60 to 75 per cent ...

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, ...

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 ...

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.