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 ...

LOOKING backward we can see very clearly the monumental character of the discovery of ... curiosity”. Wilhelm Conrad Röntgen: and the Early History of the Roentgen Rays.

The first X-ray taken of a human ... hand with a ring on it. | Credit: Wilhelm Conrad Röntgen / SpaceX/Fram2 In 1895, when ...

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 ...

A new chapter in X-ray history has been written over hundreds of miles above our planet. A medical X-ray of a human hand has been taken successfully in space for the first time. The remarkable feat ...

In 1895, a German professor of physics named Wilhelm Röntgen was experimenting with cathode rays when he stumbled upon an ...

Featuring a hand with a ring, KA Imaging says the image mirrored the first ever X-ray image accidentally captured over a century ago by Wilhelm Roentgen. The X-ray was part of the SpaceXray ...

In a groundbreaking mission, SpaceX Fram2 crew recreated Röntgen's X-ray ... named Wilhelm Röntgen was experimenting with cathode rays when he stumbled upon an accidental discovery that would ...