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 ...

Circa 1890: an X-Ray view of the hand and wrist of a four year-old child Circa 1890: an X-Ray view of the hand and wrist of a four year-old childGeorge Eastman House / Getty Images No one was ...

In case you were puzzled by the odd doodle on Google's home page today, it all traces back to 1895. It was on this day that a German physicist named Wilhelm Conrad Rontgen became the first person to ...

THE discovery by Prof. Röntgen of the rays which bear his name has aroused an interest perhaps unparalleled in the history of physical science. Reports of experiments on these rays come daily from ...

In a dim German laboratory in 1895, Wilhelm Röntgen’s accidental discovery of X-rays cracked open a new era in medicine, letting humanity see inside itself for the first time. In 1895, inside a ...

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, ...

To the casual observer, the X-ray of a hand, seen below, appears unremarkable. However, it is in fact the world's first X-ray taken of a human, in December 1895 - and belongs to the wife of the man ...

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 ...

X-RAY therapy has been employed in the treatment of acne vulgaris since Gautier 1 reported its efficacy in 1897. Pusey 2 was the first to utilize this mode of therapy in the United States. Technics ...