World Radiography Day 2026: On November 8, 1895, a German physicist noticed a mysterious glow in his laboratory; his discovery of X-rays changed modern medicine
Wilhelm Conrad Röntgen (Photo from the Nobel Foundation archive). On November 8, 1895, German physicist Wilhelm Conrad Röntgen made an observation in his laboratory that would transform the way doctors examined the human body. While experimenting with electrical currents passing through a glass tube, he noticed that a fluorescent screen nearby began to glow even…
