"I did not think; I investigated."
German physicist Wilhelm Conrad Röntgen died #OTD in 1923.
On 8 November 1895, he 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. The non-SI unit of radiation exposure, the roentgen (R), is also named after him.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wilhelm_R%C3%B6ntgen
Books about Röntgen at PG:
https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/search/?query=R%C3%B6ntgen&submit_search=Search