Discovery of X-rays Flashcards
Who discovered x-rays?
Wilhelm Conrad Roentgen
Roentgen’s birthday and birthplace
March 27, 1845 in Lennep, Germany
Roentgen’s father and his work
Friedrich Conrad Roentgen, textile merchant
Roentgen’s wife
Bertha Ludwig
Roentgen’s profession
Rector at the University of Wurzburg, continued working in the Physics department
When and where was x-ray discovered?
November 8, 1895
What was Roentgen been experimenting with when he discovered x-ray?
Cathode rays
Where was the glow coming from when Roentgen was experimenting?
Barium platinocyanide
One of the first notable radiographic image
Bertha Ludwig’s hand with a ring
When was Roentgen’s first report to the Wurzburg Physico- Medical Society
December 28,1895
What was the title of Roentgen’s first report to the Wurzburg Physico- Medical Society
On a New Kind of Rays
When was Roentgen’s first public lecture on x-rays
January 1896
When and where did Roentgen receive the first Nobel Prize in Physics?
Stockholm, 1901
When did Roentgen die? What was the cause?
Feb 10, 1923 (colon cancer)
He was the first casualty of x-ray (Radiation dermatitis)
Clarence Dolly
