On a cold evening in November 1895, in a darkened laboratory in Würzburg, Germany, physicist Wilhelm Conrad Röntgen noticed something strange. He had been experimenting with cathode rays inside a ...

Then, in 1895, the German physicist Wilhelm Röntgen was tinkering with a vacuum tube that had two electrical connections, known as cathodes, attached to it. When he ran an electric current through the ...

On the night of November 8, 1895, German physicist Wilhelm Conrad Roentgen finished his supper and went to his laboratory to conduct some routine experiments. Roentgen had no way of knowing that, ...