He was so modest and altruistic that in 1901, when he was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics, he donated the fifty thousand ...

1895: German physicist Wilhelm Roentgen is working in his laboratory in Würzburg when he accidentally discovers the X-ray. Roentgen was conducting experiments with a Crookes tube -- basically a glass ...

X-rays are such a fundamental part of our modern technological landscape that it's kind of surprising to learn that their ...

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, ...

On 8 November 1895, German physicist Wilhelm Roentgen unintentionally discovered an image cast from his cathode ray generator and became the first person to create what he termed the x-ray. In 1901 ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. An employee of the German Roentgen Museum holds an X-ray image of his hand, photographed by Wilhelm Roentgen, over a light box.

To the Editor: On Nov. 8, 1895, Wilhelm Roentgen discovered a new form of radiation that would change the face of medicine forever, the Roentgen ray or X-ray. For the first few decades, X-rays were ...

An X-ray shows the feet of an 6-year-old boy (Picture: ChinaFotoPress) It’s been 120 years since the first x-ray so we’ve decided to put a list together showing some of the most fascinating examples.

On March 27, 1845, physicist Wilhelm Roentgen, who discovered X-rays, was born in Lennep, Prussia. In 1884 the first long-distance phone call was made, between Boston and New York City. In 1886 ...

Recently I had an article emailed to me for consideration for Semelka's Spin that was written by a first-year medical student at the University of Manitoba, Canada; this student is planning to pursue ...