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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Laboratory of Wilhelm Conrad Röntgen
© Daniel Karmann/dpa

The discovery laboratory with the desk of physicist Wilhelm Conrad Röntgen (1845-1923) in the Röntgen Memorial Site in Würzburg.

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