In 1895, when German physics professor Wihelm Röntgen was experimenting with cathode rays, he accidentally discovered what we ...

In a groundbreaking mission, SpaceX Fram2 crew recreated Röntgen's X-ray experiment in space, imaging a hand and other body ...

The first X-ray images ever taken are now part of the Memory of the World Register of United Nations Educational, Scientific ...

A team of four astronauts took the first X-ray of a human hand in space as they floated high above our planet, making medical ...

At the end of the 19th century, while studying the effects of passing an electrical current through gases at low pressure, German physicist Wilhelm Röntgen accidentally discovered X-rays—highly ...

IN a paper on secondary radiation from gases subject to X-rays (Phil. Mag. [6] v., p. 685, 1903), I described experiments which led to the conclusion that this radiation is due to what may be ...

WILHELM KONRAD RONTGEN was born on March 27, 1845. The discovery of X-rays was communicated by him to the Physico-Medical Society of Würtzburg in November 1895; a translation of his paper ...