Wilhelm Conrad Roentgen, German physicist Finish:Float frame Aerial view of Eastbourne

Aerial view of Eastbourne

Keith Moon and Pete Townshend

A longitudinal section of the stomach of a vampire bat

to aid West India trade

Wilhelm Conrad Roentgen, German physicist Finish:Float frame Aerial view of EastbourneWilhelm Conrad Roentgen, German physicist, (c1924). On 8 November 1895, Roentgen (or Rntgen, 1845 1923) discovered what came to be known as 'X rays'. He noticed that when a current was passed though a Crookes tube covered with a piece of black card, a nearby piece of paper painted with barium cyanide fluoresced. Later, he found that these X rays passed through flesh, enabling the bones to be clearly seen. In 1901, he was the first recipient of the