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W. C. Roentgen, professor of physics at Giessen, Wuerzburg and Munich, discoverer of X-rays. Reproduction of etching by J. Lindner-Mohn, 1900.

Wilhelm Conrad Roentgen looking into an X-ray screen placed in front of a man's body and seeing the ribs and the bones of the arm. Chromolithograph.

In the footsteps of Röntgen : a selection of biographical experiences / Hilary Irvin.

Röntgen-Gedächtnis-Heft : anlässlich der Entüllungsfeier des Röntgendenkmals in Lennep am 29. und 30. November 1930 / Zusammengestellt und herausgegeben von Paul Krause.

Dr. W.C. Röntgen / [Otto Glasser].

Postage stamps ephemera. Box 10A.

The discovery of X-rays, 8 November 1895 : an exhibition to mark the centenary / Royal College of Physicians of London.

The bones of a hand with a ring on one finger, viewed through x-ray. Photoprint from radiograph by W.K. Röntgen, 1895.

Layers of tin foil, viewed under x-ray. Photoprint from radiograph by W.K. Röntgen, 1895.

A compass whose magnetic needle is entirely surrounded by metal, viewed through x-ray. Photoprint from radiograph by W.K. Röntgen, 1895.

Unloading apparatus with leaden cage, viewed under x-ray. Photoprint from radiograph by W.K. Röntgen, 1895.

A piece of metal whose heterogeneity is apparent when viewed through x-ray. Photoprint from radiograph by W.K. Röntgen, 1895.

A wire wound around a wooden spool, viewed through x-ray. Photoprint from radiograph by W.K. Röntgen, 1895.

One block of glass, one of aluminium, two of calcite and two of quartz, viewed under x-ray. Photoprint from radiograph by W.K. Röntgen, 1895.

The door of Röntgen's laboratory, with a platinum plate attached to the handle, viewed under x-ray. Photoprint from radiograph by W.K. Röntgen, 1895.

Eine neue Art von Strahlen / von W. Röntgen.

Dr. W.C. Röntgen / by Otto Glasser.

On a new kind of rays / by W.K. Röntgen.

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Eine neue Art von Strahlen / von W. Röntgen.

A wire wound around a wooden spool, viewed through x-ray. Photoprint from radiograph by W.K. Röntgen, 1895.

Dr. W.C. Röntgen / [Otto Glasser].

Dr. W.C. Röntgen / by Otto Glasser.

On a new kind of rays / by W.K. Röntgen.

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Wilhelm Röntgen

Images from the collections

Images by Wilhelm Röntgen

Images featuring Wilhelm Röntgen

Works from the collections

Eine neue Art von Strahlen / von W. Röntgen.

A wire wound around a wooden spool, viewed through x-ray. Photoprint from radiograph by W.K. Röntgen, 1895.

Dr. W.C. Röntgen / [Otto Glasser].

Dr. W.C. Röntgen / by Otto Glasser.

On a new kind of rays / by W.K. Röntgen.

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