Wilhelm Conrad R��ntgen und die Geschichte der R��ntgenstrahlen

Rngtens discovery of X-rays at the end of 1895 immediately captured both the scientific and popular imaginations and catapulted him to international fame culminating in his receipt of the first Nobel Prize for physics in 1901. Otto Glassers Wilhelm Conrad Rntgen here reprinted in its entirety from the 1933 English translation is the most comprehensive biography of Rntgen ever written presenting the full story of his life and work. With nearly 100 illustrations and an extensive history of the acceptance and application of X-rays in the period just following Rntgens discovery.