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, ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . The 19th century was a time of great discovery and life-changing inventions. During the second half of the ...

The inventions of John Joseph Merlin, currently showing at the Bowes Museum, include his 'Gouty Chair' and a clockwork-driven spit anticipating the doner kebab.

Honolulu, HI | April 18, 2023—The American Roentgen Ray Society (ARRS) is pleased to announce that The Roentgen Fund® 2023 Honorary Lecture, “Advanced High-Resolution CT (HRCT),” will be dedicated to ...

A hundred years ago, German physics professor Wilhelm C. Roentgen accidentally discovered something that would revolutionize medicine. During an experiment in a basement laboratory, he noticed a glow ...

PROF. RÖNTGEN'S remarkable discovery will materially affect our views concerning the relation between the ether and matter; but further experimental evidence is required before any opinion can be ...

In 1895, German scientist W C Roentgen began studying the phenomena accompanying the passage of an electric current through a gas of extremely low pressure. His work on cathode rays (the electric ...

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 ...

WENGEN, Switzerland — In 2014, Philip and Mary Ellen Röntgen sold their three-bedroom colonial home outside New York City and relocated to their holiday farmhouse in the Swiss ski village of Wengen.

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REFERRING to two letters in your last issue, p. 388, it is somewhat disconcerting to have Prof. Röntgen's original experiment—viz, the observation of shadows thrown on a barium-platino-cyanide ...