Rontgen Quotes

For the birth of something new, there has to be a happening. Newton saw an apple fall; James Watt watched a kettle boil; Rontgen fogged some photographic plates. And these people knew enough to translate ordinary happenings into something new...

Wilhelm Conrad Rontgen, the discoverer of X-rays, was born in 1845, in the town of Lennep, in Germany.

Mighty men of science and mighty deeds. A Newton who binds the universe together in uniform law; Lagrange, Laplace, Leibnitz with their wondrous mathematical harmonies; Coulomb measuring our electricity... Faraday, Ohm, Ampère, Joule, Maxwell, Hertz, Röntgen; and in another branch of science, Cavendish, Davy, Dalton, Dewar; and in another, Darwin, Mendel, Pasteur, Lister, Sir Ronald Ross. All these and many others, and some whose names have no memorial, form a great host of heroes, an army of soldiers – fit companions of those of whom the poets have sung... There is the great Newton at the head of this list comparing himself to a child playing on the seashore gathering pebbles, whilst he could see with prophetic vision the immense ocean of truth yet unexplored before him...

Tesla was never one to chase recognition—he was after the pure thrill of discovery and creation. His imagination was a factory with unlimited resources, and the world an exciting playground with unlimited possibilities. He was excited to see men like Rontgen pioneer new fields of understanding, and was happy that his work contributed to the rise of other great men.

71 WILHELM CONRAD RONTGEN

On November 8, 1895, Rontgen was doing some ex periments with cathode rays. Cathode rays consist of a stream of electrons.

In 1901, Rontgen was the recipient of the Nobel Prize in physics, the first one ever awarded.

Când lucram și mă-ntorceam acasă amărâtă de-a fi descoperit la Rontgen boli necruțătoare sau mâhnită de oameni, mă dezbrăcam la iuțeală și luam la răsfoit un album de artă. Și dintr-odată mă ducea gândul că-n haosul de neînțeles al vieții, în lipsa ei de logică și de finalitate, arta reprezenta o justificare a ceea ce se cheamă creatură dotată cu judecată și cu certitudinea morții, îmbogățirea minții și-ndulcirea sufletului, învelirea lui în milă ca-ntr-un aluat, sunt valori adevărate ale unei vieți. Munca, obligatorie pentru „trestia gânditoare”, ar trebui să te conducă la ele. Să nu fie doar mijlocul care să-ți asigure existența fizică. Mă gândesc la grosul lumii, la cei care muncesc pentru o pâine.

Tesla happily accepted, spent half of his cash payment to construct a new lab, and oversaw the building and installation of alternating current systems across the country. He also immediately began research into what he termed “radiant energy.” His studies led him to discover what we now know as X-rays, and how to use them to produce radiographs. He didn’t make his discoveries widely known, however, which is why they would later be attributed to German physicist Willhelm Rontgen. X-rays were the first of several groundbreaking discoveries of Tesla’s that would wind up misattributed to others.