German physicist (1845–1923)
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He found a new kind of light that could see through flesh to bone — and refused to patent it, believing the world should have it free.
Wilhelm Conrad Röntgen was a German experimental physicist working in the dim hours of November 1895 when he noticed a strange glow from a covered screen across his lab. He'd stumbled on electromagnetic radiation in a wavelength no one had isolated before: X-rays, capable of passing through soft tissue and exposing the skeleton beneath. The discovery tore through medicine and science. In 1901 he became the first person ever to receive the Nobel Prize in Physics, cited for "the extraordinary services he has rendered by the discovery of the remarkable rays subsequently named after him." He died…
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I was working with a Crookes tube covered by a shield of black cardboard. A piece of barium platino-cyanide paper lay on the bench there.
Having discovered the existence of a new kind of rays, I of course began to investigate what they would do.
I am not a prophet, and I am opposed to prophesying. I am pursuing my investigations, and as fast as my results are verified I shall make them public.
We shall see what we shall see. We have the start now; the developments will follow in time.
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