One of the most famous images in photographic history

in photography •  7 years ago 

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.
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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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https://en.m.wikiquote.org/wiki/Wilhelm_Röntgen

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nice post