Wilhelm Rontgen Quotes

Germany, Physicist
March 27, 1845 – February, 10, 1923.

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 first Nobel Prize in Physics in 1901. In honour of his accomplishments, in 2004 the International Union of Pure and Applied Chemistry named element 111, roentgenium, a radioactive element with multiple unstable isotopes, after him.

For me photography was the means to the end, but they made it the most important thing. (On the discovery of X-ray photography.)

Wilhelm Rontgen
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.

Wilhelm Rontgen
- Waves
- Suppose
- Material

Great discoveries are made accidentally less often than the populace likes to think.

Wilhelm Rontgen
There is much to do, and I am busy, very busy.

Wilhelm Rontgen
- Very
- Busy
- Much
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'.

Wilhelm Rontgen
- Shadow
- Name
- Expression
I did not think; I experimented.

Wilhelm Rontgen
- Think
- Experimented