1. From near and far reporters streamed to interview Rontgen.

2. Rontgen went on to try to find out more about these strange invisible rays.

3. Rontgen put his hand before X - ray, he saw the bones of his hands only.

4. For this work , Rontgen received the Nobel Prize in physics ( the first one ) in 1901.

5. So Rontgen made the first X-ray picture of a hand, showing just how the bones in the hand fit together.

6. X - rays were first discovered by a German scientist , Wilhelm Konrad Rontgen, in 1895, almost by accident.

7. Rays were first discovered by a German scientist, Wilhelm Konrad Rontgen , in 1895, almost by accident.