Rontgen Rays: Memoirs By Rontgen, Stokes And J. J. Thomson (1899) is a historical book written by George F. Barker that details the discovery and early research on X-rays. The book includes memoirs written by three of the leading scientists in the field at the time: Wilhelm Conrad Rontgen, George Gabriel Stokes, and J. J. Thomson. Rontgen's memoir describes his discovery of X-rays and the experiments he conducted to understand their properties, while...