Quote of the day
Autumn burned brightly, a running flame through the mountains, a torch flung to the trees.
Wilhelm Röntgen
Born: March 27, 1845
Died: February 10, 1923 (aged 77)
Bio: Wilhelm Conrad Röntgen was a German physicist, who, on 8 November 1895, produced and detected electromagnetic radiation in a wavelength range known as X-rays or Röntgen rays, an achievement that earned him the first Nobel Prize in Physics in 1901.