Jared’s one request for this weekend was to make a pit stop by the Museum of Radiology. Its not far from Koln so it made sense to swing by. He prepped the kids and I by saying, its not going to be very fun and you are probably going to be bored, but we are going to go so make the best of it. This is my professional field and I want to see the birthplace of Radiology. Okay we all replied and didn’t think much more about it. We arrived with just an hour left before closing. We figured that would be plenty of time….but we were wrong. This museum was so much fun! We could have used more time here. The kids had a blast.
This is the super modern and fun lobby that we walked into:
Wilhelm Conrad Rontgen was a German Physicist. In 1895 he produced and detected electromagnetic radiation in a wavelength range today known as X-rays or Rontgen rays. This achievement earned him the first Nobel Prize in Physics in 1901. In honor of his accomplishments, the International Union of Pure and Applied Chemistry named element 111 Roentgenium a very radioactive element after him. The man was a genius in my opinion. Could you imagine not being able to see if your arm was broken or not? X-rays are kind of amazing when you stop to think about it.
We had the museum to ourselves, so the kids played and played. They pretended to be patients and Doctors, and Dentists. Someday they might be!
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