On November 8th, 1895, the future Nobel laureate Wilhelm Conrad Roentgen had a stroke of luck: Radiation invisible to the human eye had the ability to make otherwise concealed things visible. Initially, Roentgen referred to these short-wavelength, high-energy rays as “X-rays.” Later on, in German they would be called “Röntgenstrahlen” (Roentgen rays) in his honor. […]