Röntgen dies 100 years agoRevolutionary for medicine and technology
What Professor Röntgen discovered by chance in the evening during experiments in the laboratory in Würzburg revolutionized science. 100 years after his death, researchers are using the rays named after him to illuminate more than just people.
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The physicist Wilhelm Conrad Röntgen can be seen in an undated archive photo. Wilhelm Röntgen discovered the special rays by chance.