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  1. Happy birthday to Wilhem Röntgen (1845-1923), the German physicist who discovered x-rays and earned the Nobel Prize for physics in 1901. I’ve depicted him in this thermochromic portrait at work, studying this mysterious, newly discovered, invisible form of light, based on a photograph of him in his lab, using a Crookes tube to produce x-rays. The form of the print mimics the nature of his discovery -
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  2. Happy birthday to #physicist Wilhelm Röntgen (1845-1923) who discovered x-rays & earned the Nobel Prize for #physics in 1901. I've depicted him at work, studying this mysterious, newly discovered, invisible form of light, based on a photo of him, using a Crookes tube to produce x-rays. The form of the print mimics the nature of his discovery - much as x-rays reveal the skeleton within, …

    #sciart #printmaking #histstm #Röntgen #Roentgen #xrays #radiography #thermochromic