Wilhelm Rontgen Professions : PhysicistBorn : March 27, 1845Died : February 10, 1923 Browse All Authors Top 6 quotes by Wilhelm Rontgen Great discoveries are made accidentally less often than the populace likes to think. Wilhelm Rontgen likesdiscoverythinking 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 expressiondarkscience I did not think; I experimented. Wilhelm Rontgen experiencethinking 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 photographydiscoverymean There is much to do, and I am busy, very busy. Wilhelm Rontgen busy 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 atomsdistanceorder Similar Authors Gabriel Lippmann physicist Burton Richter physicist Bruno Rossi physicist Bruce Maccabee physicist Brian Cox physicist Allan McLeod Cormack physicistAll Authors
