He was so modest and altruistic that in 1901, when he was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics, he donated the fifty thousand crowns of the prize to the university where he worked, refused to sell the ...
You can’t see them, but they help bring other things you can’t see into sharp relief. This week, we’re getting the inside story on X-rays. * Like many great discoveries, it started by accident. In ...
ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — When German physicist Wilhelm Röntgen discovered X-rays in the late 1800s while experimenting with cathode ray tubes, it was a breakthrough that transformed science and medicine.