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 1895, Wilhelm Röntgen discovered X-rays while experimenting with cathode rays and crystals, leading to the realization that invisible rays could cause fluorescence and penetrate lightproof ...

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 ...

RöNTGEN'S discovery of X-rays at the end of the year 1895 began a new era in the history of scientific investigation. Few discoveries have so speedily been followed by important benefits to ...

On 8 November 1895, German scientist Wilhem Röntgen discovered x-rays – a new technology that revolutionised medicine. Only, the interesting thing is, he didn’t actually mean to. Röntgen’s ...

William Roentgen discovered X-rays at the end of the 19th century. In the same period, J. J. Thomson discovered the electron. At the beginning of the 20th century, Max Planck revealed the quantum ...

His discovery of X-rays revolutionized the medical field and it is still used today for diagnostic imaging. Roentgen's discovery of X-rays earned him the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1901.