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# The 1896 X-ray image shows the hand of Albert von Kölliker, not Röntgen's wife
- URL: https://theparnassian.com/en/tak-vygliadit-odin-iz-pervykh-rentgenovskikh-snimkov-sdelannyi-23-ianvaria-1896-goda/
- Published: 2021-12-22T09:04:14.000Z
- Updated: 2026-10-02T19:01:14.000Z
- Author: Alexandr Radayev
- Tags: Archive, Science, People

This is what one of the first X-ray images looks like, taken on 23 January 1896\. Contrary to a misconception widespread on the internet, it is not a picture of the right hand of the wife of Wilhelm Röntgen, discoverer of the mysterious X-rays. It is a picture of the hand of his friend, the biologist Albert von Kölliker. For his discovery Röntgen was awarded the first Nobel Prize in Physics in history.