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- NAME: Wilhelm Conrad Röntgen
- OCCUPATION: Physicist
- BIRTH DATE: March 27, 1845
- DEATH DATE: February 10, 1923
- EDUCATION: Polytechnic (Zurich)
- PLACE OF BIRTH: Remscheid, Germany
- PLACE OF DEATH: Munich, Germany
- AKA: Wilhelm Conrad Roentgen
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Wilhelm Conrad Röntgen was a Nobel-winning German scientist who is credited with the discovery of X-rays.
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In 1895, while experimenting with electric current flow in a cathode-ray tube, Wilhelm Conrad Röntgen observed that a nearby piece of barium platinocyanide gave off light when the tube was in operation. In view of its uncertain nature, he called the phenomenon X-radiation (also Röntgen radiation). He took the first X-ray photographs: interiors of metal objects and of the bones in his wife's hand.© 2013 A+E Networks. All rights reserved.
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