Where did Wilhelm roentgen invent X-rays?
W. Roentgen invented the x-ray in 1895.
Ok I know it's a matter of semantics, but Dr. Roentgen was in
fact the "discoverer" of Roentgen-Rays on November 8th, 1895.
"Roentgen" was too difficult a word for pre-industrial people to
wrap their minds around so they shortened it to "X-Rays."
To say that he "invented" them is a bit of a stretch considering
that distant stars were emitting X-Rays billions of years before
his birth. It's a bit like saying that Isaac Newton "invented"
gravity. duh...
I know, minutiae, idiot savant, yada yada, yada. Whatever. A Who
is a Who, no matter how small.
actually they were called x-rays because they were determined as
a unknown ray at the time.