Wilhelm Röntgen publishes paper on X-rays

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28 December, 1895

German physicist Wilhelm Röntgen published a paper on 28th December 1895 in which he details his discovery of a new type of radiation, which came to be known as X-rays.

Röntgen had discovered X-rays on 8th November 1895 and went on to receive the 1901 Nobel Prize in Physics.