Complete Record - Heirs of Hippocrates No. 2090

WILHELM CONRAD ROENTGEN (1845-1923) Ueber eine neue Art von Strahlen. Erste, [Zweite und Dritte] Mittheilung. (In Annalen der Physik, Neue Folge. Vol. 64 (1880), no. 1, pp. 1-37.) 21.1 cm.

The first report of Röntgen's discovery of the X-ray did not appear until 1895 in the Sitzungsberichte der Physikalisch-Medizinischen Gesellschaft. Röntgen published a second report of his research and experimentation in the same journal in 1896, and a third and final report in the Sitzungsberichte der Koeniglichen Preussischen Akademie der Wissenschaften zu Berlin in 1897. These three short papers, published much earlier and collected here for the first time, represent one of the most important advances in the history of scientific development. The importance of Röntgen's work and the resulting development of the field of radiology does not need further elaboration. Röntgen was awarded the first Nobel prize in physics in 1901.

Cited references: Cushing R193, 1st report; Cushing R194, 2nd report; Garrison-Morton 2683, 1st report; Osler 1700, 1st report; Waller 8078, 1st report; Waller 8083, 2nd report

Gift of John Martin, M.D.