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.

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

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, ...

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.

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 ...

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 ...

ROENTGEN'S X-RAYS ; May Be Due, He ... 1896, Page 9 Buy ... The preliminary communication of Prof. Wilhelm Konrad Rontgen to the Wurzberg Physico-Medical Society of his discovery of a new form of ...

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 ...