Top 6 Quotes & Sayings by Wilhelm Rontgen

Explore popular quotes and sayings by a Dutch physicist Wilhelm Rontgen.
Last updated on November 25, 2024.
Wilhelm Rontgen

Wilhelm Conrad Röntgen was a German mechanical engineer and physicist, who, on 8 November 1895, produced and detected electromagnetic radiation in a wavelength range known as X-rays or Röntgen rays, an achievement that earned him the inaugural Nobel Prize in Physics in 1901. In honour of Röntgen's accomplishments, in 2004 the International Union of Pure and Applied Chemistry (IUPAC) named element 111, roentgenium, a radioactive element with multiple unstable isotopes, after him. The unit of measurement roentgen was also named after him.

Röntgen has familiarized us with an order of vibrations of extreme minuteness compared with the smallest waves with which we have hitherto been acquainted, and of dimensions comparable with the distances between the centers of the atoms of which the material universe is built up; and there is no reason to suppose that we have here reached the limit of frequency.
If the hand be held between the discharge-tube and the screen, the darker shadow of the bones is seen within the slightly dark shadow-image of the hand itself... For brevity's sake I shall use the expression 'rays'; and to distinguish them from others of this name I shall call them 'X-rays'.
Great discoveries are made accidentally less often than the populace likes to think. — © Wilhelm Rontgen
Great discoveries are made accidentally less often than the populace likes to think.
I did not think; I experimented.
For me photography was the means to the end, but they made it the most important thing. (On the discovery of X-ray photography.)
There is much to do, and I am busy, very busy.
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