Wilhelm Conrad Röntgen (or Roentgen), a German physicist, was the first person to systematically produce and detect electromagnetic radiation in a wavelength range today known as X-rays, or Röntgen ...

On the night of November 8, 1895, German physicist Wilhelm Conrad Roentgen finished his supper and went to his laboratory to conduct some routine experiments. Roentgen had no way of knowing that, ...

Recently I had an article emailed to me for consideration for Semelka's Spin that was written by a first-year medical student at the University of Manitoba, Canada; this student is planning to pursue ...

In case you were puzzled by the odd doodle on Google's home page today, it all traces back to 1895. It was on this day that a German physicist named Wilhelm Conrad Rontgen became the first person to ...

In 1895, while experimenting with cathode rays, physics professor Wilhelm Conrad Röntgen, asked his wife to set her hand on a photographic plate. The result was the very first human x-ray. Here’s the ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. An employee of the German Roentgen Museum holds an X-ray image of his hand, photographed by Wilhelm Roentgen, over a light box.

Autograph letter signed, handwritten in black ink on unlined paper with the printed letterhead of the Physikalisches Institut, Universität München, Munich, Germany. Accompanied by envelope with stamp ...