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, ...
Wilhelm Röntgen, “Hand with Rings,” a print of one of the first X-ray photographs (shows the left hand of Röntgen’s wife, Anna Bertha Ludwig) (December 22, 1895), albumen photograph (courtesy Röntgen ...