Wilhelm Roentgen
by Gary Brown/science Photo Library
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Wilhelm Roentgen
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Gary Brown/science Photo Library
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Photograph - Photograph
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Wilhelm Roentgen (1845-1923). Caricature of the German engineer and experimental physicist and discoverer of X-rays Wilhelm Conrad Roentgen. In 1895, while using an electric discharge tube in a darkened room, Roentgen noticed that the tube induced a glow in certain chemicals. The effect could penetrate walls and metal sheets. Roentgen, who was professor of physics at Wurzburg, Germany, named this effect X-ray radiation. He was awarded the first Nobel Prize in Physics in 1901.
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September 20th, 2018
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