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File: First medical X-ray by Wilhelm Röntgen of his wife Anna Bertha Ludwig's hand - 18951222.jpg
Wilhelm Conrad Röntgen (/ ˈ r ɛ n t ɡ ə n,-dʒ ə n, ˈ r ʌ n t-/; [4] German: [ˈvɪlhɛlm ˈʁœntɡən] ⓘ; anglicized as Roentgen; 27 March 1845 – 10 February 1923) was a German physicist, [5] who, on 8 November 1895, produced and detected electromagnetic radiation in a wavelength range known as X-rays or Röntgen rays, an achievement that earned him the inaugural Nobel Prize in ...
1895 – German physicist Wilhelm Röntgen produced and detected electromagnetic radiation in a wavelength range known today as X-ray. refimprove section 1923 – Adolf Hitler , Erich Ludendorff and other members of the Kampfbund started the Beer Hall Putsch , a failed attempt to seize power in Weimar Germany .
Röntgen discovered X-rays' medical use when he made a picture of his wife's hand on a photographic plate formed due to X-rays. The photograph of his wife's hand was the first ever photograph of a human body part using X-rays. When she saw the picture, she said, "I have seen my death." [5]
Early radiology workers who died as a result The Monument to the X-ray and Radium Martyrs of All Nations (also known as the X-ray Martyrs' Memorial ) is a memorial in Hamburg , Germany, commemorating those who died due to their work with the use of radiation , particularly X-rays , in medicine.
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Bruce Weaver, a Florida-based photographer who captured a definitive image of space shuttle Challenger breaking apart into plumes of smoke and fire after liftoff, has died. Working as a freelance ...
Röntgen Memorial Site, Röntgenring 8, Würzburg. The Röntgen Memorial Site in Würzburg, Germany, is dedicated to the work of the German physicist Wilhelm Conrad Röntgen (1845–1923) and his discovery of X-rays, for which he was granted the first Nobel Prize in physics, in 1901.