Wilhelm Röntgen

That got the first

Nobel Prize in Physics for Wilhelm Röntgen in 1900, the discovery of X-rays.

What an unfortunate name, but.

What, Wilhelm? Wilhelm Röntgen.

Röntgen, in fact, we're the only ones who call them X-rays.

Everybody else calls them Röntgen

Dubbed the father of nuclear physics, which New Zealand-born scientist was awarded the 1908 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for his work on radioactivity?

Rontgen.

No. Ernest Rutherford.

So Ernest Rutherford is the right answer.

Here's Chris.

This week in 1895, scientist Wilhelm Roentgen took the first X-ray pictures.

Maybe there was a stye in the scientist's eye.

Maybe.

He pioneered early forms of neon and fluorescent lighting, bending glass tubes into intricate shapes and names, illuminating them without any wire connections through ambient electromagnetic fields.

He inadvertently discovered and captured some of the first X-ray images, which he termed shadowgraphs, sending them to Wilhelm Röntgen even as the German physicist was announcing his own discovery to the world.

During these halcyon years, Tesla's mind was an overflowing reservoir of creativity, pouring forth patents and concepts that would lay the dormant foundational stones for radar, remote sensing, and broadcast television, firmly establishing him as the archetypal mad scientist of radar, remote sensing, and broadcast television, firmly establishing him as the archetypal mad scientist of the modern age.

As the 19th century bled into the 20th, Tesla's ambitions transcended the mere transmission of electrical signals.

Exactly.

So Wilhelm Conrad Roentgen discovers X-rays in Germany in 1895, which obviously shocked the whole medical establishment.

And then just a year later, a Scottish doctor, John McIntyre, tries to image a kidney stone using this brand new tech.

But it wasn't exactly plug and play, was