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

Wilhelm Röntgen's discovery of X-rays in 1895 revolutionised medical diagnosis. More than 130 years after that, SpaceX's ...

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 ...

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.

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 ...