Johansen J G
Avdeling for nevroradiologi, Ullevål sykehus, Oslo.
Tidsskr Nor Laegeforen. 1995 Dec 10;115(30):3745-8.
The 8th of November marks the centennial of the discovery of Röntgen rays. This discovery occurred serendipitously during an experiment with cathode rays by the physicist Wilhelm Conrad Röntgen in Würzburg, Germany. Not many other discoveries in basic natural science have had such an enormous impact and immediate application in medicine. Röntgen had a Dutch connection, since he spent 17 years of his childhood and youth in the Netherlands. In his final school report, the only subject in which the later Nobel prize winner in physics received poor marks was physics! Notes released 70 years after Röntgen received his prize revealed that the Nobel Committee for Physics actually had recommended that the prize be divided equally between Röntgen and Philipp Lenard, another eminent German physicist.
11月8日是伦琴射线发现一百周年纪念日。这一发现是德国维尔茨堡的物理学家威廉·康拉德·伦琴在进行阴极射线实验时偶然发生的。基础自然科学中没有多少其他发现能在医学上产生如此巨大的影响并得到如此迅速的应用。伦琴与荷兰有渊源，因为他童年和青年时期的17年是在荷兰度过的。在他的最后一份学校报告中，这位后来的诺贝尔物理学奖得主唯一成绩不佳的科目就是物理！伦琴获奖70年后公布的笔记显示，诺贝尔物理学委员会实际上曾建议将该奖项在伦琴和另一位杰出的德国物理学家菲利普·莱纳德之间平分。
