📅 8 November 1895
He noticed a fluorescent screen glowing during cathode-ray experiments in Würzburg.
📅 8 November 1895
His laboratory observation launched tests of a phenomenon later called X-rays.
📅 8 November 1895
The observation preceded the first famous hand radiographs and later clinical use of X-rays.
📅 8 November 1895
Once developed, the new radiation allowed physicians to see bones inside the living body without surgery.
