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The Birmingham artist Robert Alan Thom (1915-1979) painted a picture in 1966 showing Wilhelm Conard Roentgen at his first public demonstration of the newly discovered X-rays in the evening of January 23, 1896. The lecture took place at the Physics Department Auditorium of the University of Würzburg in Germany where Roentgen was the rector. The painting shows Albert von Kölliker, professor of anatomy at the University putting his hand on a photographic plate to make an X-ray picture. The painting is published in an interesting book entitled Great Moments in Medicine by Parke, Davis & Company, Northwood Institute Press, Detroit …