Friday, September 11, 2009

First Human X Ray 1896

Interesting tidbit for the day...

While Wilhelm Konrad Roentgen working on a series of experiments with a Crookes tube, he noticed that a bit of barium platinocyanide emitted a fluorescent glow. He then laid a photographic plate behind his wife’s hand (note the wedding rings), and made the first X-ray photo. Before that, physicians were unable to look inside a person’s body without making an incision. Roentgen was the recipient of the first Nobel Prize for Physics in 1901.

(via digitaljournalist.org)