Jan. 5, 1896: An Austrian newspaper reports Wilhelm Roentgen’s discovery of a new type of radiation, which becomes known as an X-ray ...

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.

The world first learned about X-rays 120 years ago, on Jan. 5, 1896. ... X-ray photograph taken by Wilhelm Roentgen of his wife's hand in December 1895. SSPL—Getty Images.

In December of 1895, Wilhelm Röntgen revealed the bones of his wife’s hand in the first X-ray photograph. by Allison Meier May 1, 2017 May 1, 2017. ... In January 1896, ...

Rontgen's discovery in fact, as Sir J. J. Thomson remarked in his Rede lecture on July 10, 1896, “appealed to the strongest of all human attributes, namely, curiosity”. Wilhelm Conrad Röntgen ...

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

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. Almost immediately, physicians ...

Physicist Wilhelm Röntgen invented the X-ray photograph while messing about at his home in Würzburg, Germany, with a Crookes tube and a sheet of paper painted with barium platinocyanide ...

On January 6, 1896, the Associated Press announced that German physicist Wilhelm Roentgen had discovered a new form of radiation. While experimenting with cathode rays, he discovered that ...

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.

6 comments on “ X-ray machine is formally displayed, January 18, 1896 ” Charles Jr ... “Interesting that the photo is of Wilhelm Roentgen's wife's hand and not of his own…nnI guess I'm too young to ...

X-ray machine from 1896 compared to modern version. Published. 16 March 2011. Share. close panel. Share page. ... Following a publication by X-ray discoverer Wilhelm Roentgen just weeks before, ...