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Loading ...In 1901 Wilhelm Konrad Roentgen was the first recipient of the Nobel Prize for Physics, and he truly deserves his place in history because his discovery revolutionized the medical world. A series of experiments helped him notice that barium platinocyanide emits a fluorescent glow. Combining his observation with a photographic plate and his wife’s hand, he made the first X-ray photo, and thus, made it possible to look inside the human body without surgical intervention.
![First X-ray [1896]](http://worldsfamousphotos.com/wp-content/uploads/2007/03/first-human-x-ray-1896.jpg)
Photographer: Wilhelm Konrad Roentgen
Source: life.com
this photo is really interesting. being able to see the first x ray. wow thats awesome
I believe that you may have the wrong image for the first X-ray. This site has a different image, and your image appears to be a reversal of this image, which was an image Roentgen took of Albert von Kölliker’s hand. (Despite what Wikipedia might say to the contrary.)
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Wilhelm Konrad Roentgen, I love you. I’m work in Radiology, you gave me my career. I’m RICH because of you……….R.I.P.