Wilhelm Conrad Röentgen was named X-radiation (1895).

Who discovered the x-ray?

Full Name

          Wilhelm Conrad Roentgen

BORN

March 27, 1845
Lennep, Germany

DIED

February 10, 1923 (aged 77)
Munich, Germany

SUBJECTS OF STUDY

• X-ray

AWARDS AND HONORS

• Nobel Prize (1901)

Wilhelm Conrad Röentgen

Wilhelm Conrad Röentgen, Röentgen also spelled Roentgen, (born March 27, 1845, Lennep, Prussia [now Remscheid, Germany]—died February 10, 1923, Munich, Germany), a physicist who was a recipient of the first Nobel Prize for Physics, in 1901, for his discovery of X-rays, which heralded the age of modern physics and revolutionized diagnostic medicine.

Röntgen studied at the Polytechnic in Zürich and then was a professor of physics at the universities of Strasbourg (1876–79), Giessen (1879–88), Würzburg (1888–1900), and Munich (1900–20). His research also included work on elasticity, the capillary action of fluids, specific heats of gases, conduction of heat in crystals, absorption of heat by gases, and piezoelectricity.

University of Zurich

(The University were Röntgen Study & Teach) 

 Anna Bertha Ludwig 

(Wilhelm Röentgen's wife) 

German Physicist, Wilhelm Conrad Röntgen discovered x-rays in 1895. He discovered x-rays while studying cathode rays in his laboratory. The first x-ray photograph ever taken was of his wife's hand. It displayed her wedding ring & bones. X-rays are used to diagnose fractures or bone injuries by taking pictures of bones. In the early days, the bones in the x-ray photograph appeared dark rather than white. 

   First Image of x-ray of Roentgen wife's hand by Wilhelm Conrad Roentgen in 1895.