Wilhelm Conrad Röntgen
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Portrait of Wilhelm Conrad Röntgen.
Source: U.S National Library of Medicine Photographer unknown Kindly provided by National Library of Medicine
Hand with Rings: a print of one of the first of Wilhelm Röntgen's X-ray photographs. It shows the left hand of his wife, Anna Bertha Ludwig, and was presented to Professor Ludwig Zehnder of the Physik Institut, University of Freiburg, on 1 January 1896.
Source: National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) Public domain via Wikimedia Commons Photographer: Wilhelm Röntgen
Wilhelm Röntgen's laboratory at the University of Würzburg, where he made his discovery of x-rays.
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Portrait of Wilhelm Conrad Röntgen.
Source: ETH-Bibliothek Zürich, Bildarchiv Public domain via Wikimedia Commons Photographer unknown
Wilhelm Conrad Röntgen. Lithograph.
Courtesy: Jacob van 't Hoff Collection, Ms. 74, Special Collections, The Sheridan Libraries, The Johns Hopkins University
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