Wilhelm+C+Roentgen-+Discovery+of+X-rays

=**Wilhelm Conrad Röntgen** =  http://nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/physics/laureates/1901/rontgen-bio.html  ** Date of Birth- March 27, 1845 ** ** Date of Death- F ebruary 10, 1923 ** ** Place of Origin- Lennep, Germany. ** ** Year of Discovery-1895 **

 Wilhelm Conrad Röntgen didn’t start out as the scientist we all know of today, but began life as the son of a cloth merchant. While living in the Netherlands, Röntgen showed no specific signs of scientific propensity, but instead had an ability to create marvelous mechanical gadgets. When he was 18, he attended a technical school until he was expelled for offense he did not commit. After some time though, he moved on and received a Ph.D. at the Polytechnic at Zurich and began to work as an assistant for scientist named Kundt. For several years he worked for him until Röntgen found his way up the scientific success ladder and found himself as the Chair of Physics in the University of Giessen.

 “On the evening of November 8, 1895, he found that, if the discharge tube is enclosed in a sealed, thick black carton to exclude all light, and if he worked in a dark room, a paper plate covered on one side with barium platinocyanide placed in the path of the rays became fluorescent even when it was as far as two metres from the discharge tube” (nobelprize.org). As Röntgen placed different objects in the path of the rays, they would show up on a piece of photographic paper only more transparent. Then, he placed the hand of his wife in the path of the rays and created the world’s first human x-ray.