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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] ⓘ; often rendered Roentgen in English; 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 ...
The Hand of Mrs. Wilhelm Röntgen: 1895 Wilhelm Conrad Röntgen: Würzburg, Kingdom of Bavaria, Germany The first X-ray, taken by its inventor, featured his wife's hand and ring. [s 2] [s 3] Portrait of Emil Racoviță: 1899 Louis Boutan: Banyuls-sur-Mer, France First underwater portrait, and the first taken by a camera designed for underwater ...
Wilhelm Conrad Röntgen (1845–1923) Date: before 1923. Source : This image is available from the United States Library of Congress's Prints and Photographs ...
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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. It contains an exhibition of historical instruments, machines ...
X-rays were discovered by German scientist Wilhelm Röntgen in 1895, who named them X-radiation to signify an unknown type of radiation. X-rays can penetrate many solid substances such as construction materials and living tissue, and X-ray radiography is widely used in medical diagnostics .
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