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Chapters: Albert Einstein, Peter Debye, Wilhelm Röntgen, Theodor Mommsen, Conrad Bursian, Lorenz Oken, Albert A. Bühlmann, Bruno Frey, Theodor Billroth, Karl Wilhelm Von Nägeli, Volker Strassen, Oswald Heer, Ernst Fehr, Edwin Klebs, Walter Thiel, Max Huber, Richard Avenarius, Walter Rudolf Hess, Bruno Hildebrand, Maximilian Von Frey, Carel Van Schaik, Rudolf Wolf, Fabrizio Zilibotti, Karl Joseph Eberth, Marc Amsler, Edmund Rose, Michael Anton Biermer, Otto Haab, Otto Stoll, Johann Friedrich Horner, Walle Nauta, Georg Ruge, Gustav Huguenin, Nikola Biller-Andorno, Otto Busse, Heinrich Schweizer-Sidler, Friedrich Goll, Rudolf Ulrich Krönlein, Wilhelm Adolf Schmidt, Hans Schinz, Otto Volger, Paul Wilhelm Schmiedel, Carl Eduard Cramer, Ludwig Hirzel, Karl Dilthey, Marie Theres Fögen. Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 182. Not illustrated. Free updates online. Purchase includes a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Excerpt: Albert Einstein (pronounced ; German: ; 14 March 187918 April 1955) was a theoretical physicist, philosopher and author who is widely regarded as one of the most influential and best known scientists and intellectuals of all time. He is often regarded as the father of modern physics. He received the 1921 Nobel Prize in Physics "for his services to Theoretical Physics, and especially for his discovery of the law of the photoelectric effect." His many contributions to physics include the special and general theories of relativity, the founding of relativistic cosmology, the first post-Newtonian expansion, explaining the perihelion advance of Mercury, prediction of the deflection of light by gravity and gravitational lensing, the first fluctuation dissipation theorem which explained the Brownian movement of molecules, the photon theory and wave-particle duality, the quantum theory of atomic motion in solids, the zero-point energy concept, the ...More: http://booksllc.net/?id=736 ... Read more

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Wilhelm Conrad Roentgen stumbled on x rays quite by accident working late one November night in 1895 in his laboratory in Wurzburg, Germany. Then 50 years old, he was a physical scientist who was experimenting with electricity. Even after he proved the existence of this "invisible light," Roentgen kept quiet about his discovery. He worked non-stop for several weeks, isolating himself and sometimes sleeping on a cot in his lab. He had his wife place her hand on a photographic plate for 15 minutes while x rays passed through it. The resulting picture became famous.

His discovery is credited as being one of the greatest advances in the history of medicine. X rays have found countless uses over the years including being used to authenticate paintings, stamps, and coins, and in quality control labs to check the manufacture of countless products. When he first discovered x rays, Roentgen had no idea how those rays would be used to improve our lives. ... Read more

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The biography of the German physicist who accidentally discovered the x ray and won the Nobel Prize for physics in 1901. ... Read more