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.

On January 12, 1896, three students at Davidson College experimented with x-rays. On January 6, 1896, the Associated Press announced that German physicist Wilhelm Roentgen had discovered a new ...

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 ...

1896: Radioactivity is discovered accidentally by French physicist Antoine Henri Becquerel. Becquerel was investigating German colleague Wilhelm Roentgen‘s work on phosphorescence in uranium ...

The First X-Rays 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.

In December of 1895, Wilhelm Röntgen revealed the bones of his wife Anna's hand, resulting in the first X-ray photograph.

Dive into a week of historical milestones: from Wilhelm Röntgen's X-ray discovery in 1896 to the dramatic events of Jan. 6, 2021, and the introduction of the iPhone in 2007.

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 ...

ROENTGEN'S X-RAYS; May Be Due, He Says, to Longitudinal Vibrations of Ether. HE WRITES OF HIS GREAT DISCOVERY Difference Between His and the Kath- ode Rays of Lenard -- Some of the Substances He ...

These are three things that best sum up Henry Louis Smith, an American physician and teacher. On January 12, 1896 – just over two months after Wilhelm Roentgen had discovered X-rays – the U.S ...