Anna bertha ludwig biography books

The history corner: Anna Bertha Ludwig

Wife of Wilhelm Conrad Roentgen, the discoverer of X-rays, she was the first person to experience the X-ray on her body on December 22,

Scientific literature does not usually pay too much attention to Roentgen’s spouse, who offered her left hand to make the X-ray in which one can see some metacarpals and bones of the hand and fingers, including a ring.

She initiated medical radiology and the diagnostic imaging techniques, which have greatly contributed to the development of medicine.

Anna was born in Zurich (Switzerland) on April 22, , and died in Munich (Germany) on October 31, , after 47 years of marriage to Roentgen.

Roentgen was born and spent his early childhood in Lennep, a small village located in the West of Germany, as the only son of Friederich Conrad Roentgen, a fabrics wholesaler, and his cousin of Dutch origin, Charlotte Constance Frowein.

He moved to the Netherlands when he was three years old, to live with his mother’s rel