Engineer and physicist Wilhelm Conrad Röntgen is known as the person who discovered X-ray radiation in 1895. Also called X-rays, they’re better known in German-speaking countries as “Röntgenstrahlung” (Röntgen radiation). The discovery would net Röntgen the world’s first Nobel Prize in Physics in 1901.
I’d seen a big display about Röntgen’s experiments and apparatus in Würzburg, but I’d learned a day trip from Cologne would take me to Röntgen’s birth town of Lennep.
The house in Lennep where W.C. Röntgen was born. He was only here for a few years before the family moved to the Netherlands.
1920 commemorative plaque by the city of Lennep for this house.
One of the 1st ever X-ray images: left hand of his wife Anna Ludwig Röntgen, 22 December 1895. Despite initial skepticism, one implication would soon be obvious: X-rays to examine and diagnose “inside” the body without having to “operate.”
Röntgen’s birth house, now a museum.
1930 memorial statue to W.C. Röntgen.
Not far from the Röntgen birth house is the Deutsches Röntgen Museum (German Röntgen Museum) with ‘X’ in front.
1901 Nobel Prize in Physics awarded to Röntgen: declaration in Swedish, one.
1901 Nobel Prize declaration in Swedish, two.
Siemens Stabilipan machine, with aluminium, copper, or thorium X-ray sources.
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[…] Wilhelm Conrad Röntgen, discoverer of X-rays. I visited his birth town of Lennep two days ago on travel day 87. Röntgen was also professor of physics at the University of Giessen from 1879 to […]
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