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(Q) Wilhelm Conrad Roentgen, referred to as the father of diagnostic radiography, was born on _______

A) 22 March 1845
B) 20 March 1845
C) 25 March 1845
D) 27 March 1845

View Answer D) 27 March 1845

Explanation : Wilhelm Conrad Röntgen (27 March 1845 - 10 February 1923) was a German mechanical engineer and physicist, who, on 8 November 1895, produced and detected electromagnetic radiation in a wavelength range known as X-rays or Röntgen rays, an achievement that earned him the inaugural Nobel Prize in Physics in 1901.
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