Wilhelm Röntgen, “Hand with Rings,” a print of one of the first X-ray photographs showing the left hand of Röntgen’s wife, Anna Bertha Ludwig (1895) (via Wellcome Images/Wikimedia) In a series for the ...

IN a paper on secondary radiation from gases subject to X-rays (Phil. Mag. [6] v., p. 685, 1903), I described experiments which led to the conclusion that this radiation is due to what may be called a ...

WILHELM KONRAD RONTGEN was born on March 27, 1845. The discovery of X-rays was communicated by him to the Physico-Medical Society of Würtzburg in November 1895; a translation of his paper appeared in ...

Wilhelm Conrad Röntgen (or Roentgen), a German physicist, was the first person to systematically produce and detect electromagnetic radiation in a wavelength range today known as X-rays, or Röntgen ...

A technician takes an X-ray fluoroscope of a female patient. Fluoroscope exams delivered much more radiation exposures than modern X-rays. National Cancer Institute, public domain Photography of any ...

From reproductive rights to climate change to Big Tech, The Independent is on the ground when the story is developing. Whether it's investigating the financials of Elon Musk's pro-Trump PAC or ...

One hundred and twenty years ago, W. C. Röntgen discovered it was possible to use a new kind of ray to X-ray or "roentgenize" people and things. It was a chance find that transformed clinical ...

Sometimes the Nobel prize in physics requires a fair bit of decoding for the non-expert (such as the 2013 award for the theory behind the Higgs boson, or the award ...

When German physicist Wilhelm Röntgen pioneered the use of x-rays 115 years ago—as celebrated today with a 115th-anniversary Google doodle—he couldn't have imagined the uses they'd be put to a century ...

From Röntgen to Fermi: the origins of radiation medicine. Fifty years of radiotherapy that, from being a hopeful cure practiced broadly half a century ago, has translated into treatments of ...