ABSTRACT
Prof. Dr. Wilhelm Conrad Roentgen, posing with one of his early tubes in January 1897 for a statue in his honor, to be erected in Berlin, Germany.
(Courtesy of German Roentgen Museum, Remscheid-Lennep, Germany.)
In January 1897, summarizing an intense year of ups and downs, Conrad Roentgen confessed to his dear friend Zehnder (1935, translated): “Meanwhile, I have provisionally sworn that I do not want to deal with the behavior of the [X-ray] tubes, as these things are even more capricious and erratic than the women.” After the following, readers of all genders may dare to disagree.
