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5 paź 2017 · It was an image that sparked a craze for the invisible rays that could shine through the opaque and illuminate the inner workings of the human body, and it catapulted Wilhelm Roentgen to worldwide...
The Nobel Prize in Physics 1901 was awarded to Wilhelm Conrad Röntgen "in recognition of the extraordinary services he has rendered by the discovery of the remarkable rays subsequently named after him"
November 8, 1895: Roentgen's Discovery of X-Rays. Nov. 1, 2001. Few scientific breakthroughs have had as immediate an impact as Wilhelm Conrad Roentgen's discovery of X-rays, a momentous event that instantly revolutionized the fields of physics and medicine.
On 8 November 1895 at the University of Würzburg, Germany, the physicist Wilhelm Conrad Röntgen discovers a new, unknown type of rays, which he names X-rays.
X-rays also penetrated ophthalmology. Dr Francis Henry Williams used them to locate a piece of copper foreign body in a patient’s eye. For the detection of intraocular and orbital foreign bodies using X-rays, the stereoscopic and geometric methods were developed.
24 wrz 2024 · He took the first X-ray photographs, of the interiors of metal objects and of the bones in his wife’s hand. X-rays quickly entered use in medicine, the first uses for medical imaging and treating cancers happening weeks after the announcement of Röntgen’s discovery early in 1896.
1 lis 2020 · The key experiment which revolutionized medicine fundamentally and is considered the birth day of radiology was that moment when holding with his fingers a small object in the beam, Röntgen recognized the image of his fingers on the cardboard-screen, in fact the first X-ray image ever.
