How X-ray Photography Went from Würzburg to Kingston: Two Months of Physics Invention and Social Media in 1896

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Date

Friday February 7, 2025
1:30 pm - 2:30 pm

Location

STI A

Event Category

Colloquia

Departmental

Prof. John Schreiner

Abstract:

Last November was the 129th anniversary of the discovery of x-rays by Wilhelm Conrad Röntgen in 1895. In the next months the news of his discovery hit world attention. And less than two months after he produced what is considered the first anatomical x‑ray photograph (of his wife’s hand) that experiment was reproduced by a physicist here in Kingston.
In this talk I will present how the news of the discovery travelled via that era’s version of social media, and how the stage was set for Kingston’s x‑ray legacy.

Timbits, coffee, tea will be served in STI A before the colloquium.