The very first ever X-ray image was taken then on #OnThis Day in 1895 by Wilhelm Röntgen he was further awarded with the first Nobel Prize in Physics in the year 1901.
The image of his own wife Bertha's hand (wedding ring clearly visible) propelled Röntgen into an international celebrity. The medical implications was immediately realized. Röntgen named the discovery X-radiation, or X-rays, after the mathematical term 'X' that denotes something unknown.which is still used today
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