High Precision X-Ray Measurements 2023

Session

Lecture

19 Jun 2023, 09:50

Aula Salvini (Laboratori Nazionali di Frascati INFN)

53. Wilhelm Conrad Roentgen - The discovery of X-rays and the creation of a new medical profession

Anna-Katharina Kätker

19/06/2023, 09:50

February 10, 2023, marked the 100th anniversary of the death of Wilhelm Conrad Röntgen. Reason enough to remember the scientist who discovered a "new kind of rays" on November 8, 1895, and wrote his first scientific paper on X-rays in just six weeks of research. Two more publications were to follow, and Röntgen laid the foundation for the physical clarification of X-rays and paved the way for...

52. Claims of Priority - The scientific path to the discovery of X-rays

Anna-Katharina Kätker

20/06/2023, 09:30

Shortly after Röntgen's publication about a new kind of rays, a dispute about priority claims began. Röntgen was not the first researcher to produce X-rays nor the first to take X-ray images. An analysis of the history of cathode ray research in the 19th century reveals ample evidence that researchers before Röntgen had already produced X-rays, albeit without knowing this. Most of them, for...