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1 day ago · Wilhelm Conrad Röntgen was born on 27 March 1845 in the traditional cloth-making town of Lennep. The son of a textile manufacturing family also spent his early years here – before he had his great breakthrough in the year 1895. He discovered the rays that are today known the world over as X-rays during his time at the University ...
1 day ago · 1895 - Wilhelm Conrad Röntgen on 8 November 1895 produced and detected electromagnetic radiation in a wavelength range now known as X-rays or Röntgen rays, an achievement that earned him the first Nobel Prize in Physics in 1901. X-rays became the major mode of crystallographic research in the 20th century.
21 hours ago · The birth of Forensic Radiology is directly connected to the X-ray discovery by the German physicist Wilhelm Conrad Röntgen (1845-1923), in 1895. After experiments with the vacuum tube, Röntgen discovered that a paper containing barium platinocyanide became fluorescent when exposed to the rays originating from the ampoule.
21 hours ago · 3 Helmholtz-Zentrum Berlin für Materialien und Energie, Wilhelm-Conrad-Röntgen-Campus BESSY II, Albert-Einstein-Strasse 15, 12489 Berlin, Germany; 4 Institute of Physics, Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL), CH-1015 Lausanne, Switzerland
21 hours ago · Innovations: Tesla was one of the first scientists to experiment with X-Ray imaging, independently making discoveries around the same time as Wilhelm Röntgen. Tesla experimented with various types of tubes and even cautioned the scientific community about the dangers associated with X-ray radiation.
5 days ago · The famous Kurfürstendamm in Berlin has a new attraction: a transparent, illuminated bust of the world-famous discoverer of X-rays, Wilhelm Conrad Röntgen, now adorns the boulevard.
2 days ago · Nikola Tesla ( / ˈtɛslə /; [2] Serbian Cyrillic: Никола Тесла, [nǐkola têsla]; 10 July [ O.S. 28 June] 1856 – 7 January 1943) was a Serbian-American [3] [4] inventor, electrical engineer, mechanical engineer, and futurist. He is known for his contributions to the design of the modern alternating current (AC) electricity supply ...
