Wilhelm Röntgen

the date which psychology became an independent discipline. Psychology is the scientific study of the human mind and its functions, especially those affecting behavior in a given context. Most identity with the date 1879 when German psychologist Wilhelm Wundt opened the first laboratory exclusive to the practice of psychology. However, this date is still disregarded as the beginning of psychology. Despite the major impact of the laboratory on the science. Persons' concerns are based on the…

government and their decisions of mobilizing the war and civil peace. As time passed, however, civilians started to lose faith in their efforts and were growing tiresome. By 1918, faith had been lost causing Germany to surrender. German emperor, Wilhelm II, delivered a speech days after Burgfrieden was declared…

Radiology Research paper Scientist Wilhelm Roentgen accidentally discovered X-rays while studying the pathway of electricity. He realized this when he saw objects in the picture that wouldn’t usually appear in a normal photograph. Roentgen’s discovery was soon after, advanced further by Dr. Harvey Cushing in the first diagnostic clinical X-ray. 1902 was the first year they were used for ground breaking brain surgery, he used the technology to view and assist removing malignant and non-malignant…

Long gone are the days of doctors performing blind or exploratory surgeries in hopes of discovering an ailment in their patients. The discovery of the x-ray in 1895, by German physicist W.C. Roentgen, was a major contribution to modern medicine (NDT Resource Center). Years after the discovery of the x-ray, the dependency of such increased, “The number of radiographic and fluoroscopic studies skyrocketed from 25 million in 1950 to 293 million in 2006” (Herrmann et al). Due to the uptick and…

¨[June Etta Downey is] endowed with an unusually alert and discerning mind and with a maturity of judgement extremely infrequent in students her age.¨ Spoke former president of Yale University, James Rowland Angell, whom Downey had worked under for her doctorate degree. Her contributions to the Science of Psychology left her with many honors and achievements by the end of her life time. Not only did she contribute to the field of Psychology, but to the advancement of women in society. She made…

Introduction Mercedes-Benz is a multinational brand of the German maker Daimler AG, the brand is utilized for extravagance vehicles, transports, mentors, and trucks. Mercedes-Benz is headquartered in Stuttgart, Germany. The name initially showed up in 1926 under Daimler-Benz which is generally viewed as the main vehicles. Mercedes-Benz is a piece of the "German Big 3" extravagance automakers, alongside Audi and BMW, which are the three top of the line extravagance automakers on the planet…

Herman Von Helmholtz was a German psychologist the early to mid-nineteenth century. He made a plethora of different advancements in the psychological field, including the development of his theory of perception, theory of color vision, and theory of auditory perception (Hergenhahn & Henley, 2014). Apart from those contributions Helmholtz delved into different psychological questions and placed his view and response into these different psychological questions. These question, generally pertained…

A Brief Study of Wilhelm Wundt When discussing the history of psychology, there are a few things that will always be brought up. There are a few people who will be mentioned in nearly every discussion held on the topic. Names like Freud, Jung, Pavlov or Skinner are sure to be talked about at length, but there is an even more important name to remember- Wilhelm Wundt, the “Father of Psychology”. He founded psychology as an academic discipline, established the first laboratory, edited the first…

The father of Psychology and founder of experimental psychology Wilhelm Wundt, made his contribution to psychology from as early as 1856 when he strove for achievement as he attended the university of Heidelberg; Tracy B. Henley, etal, (2009/2014). there he wrote his first book and began his teaching career in scientific psychology; specifying in experiential methods which was derived for natural sciences and thinking about the Mind’s structure. Myers, (2010). The definition of psychology as…

The fourth chapter in Howell and Prevenier’s book From Reliable Sources discusses a multitude of different perspectives and approaches that exist in the historical field, regardless of whether or not these approaches contribute something positive to the field. While reading through this chapter, I did find a few of the approaches interesting for one reason or another, but I also realized just how many factors go into how a historian perceives a text or source. I never really understood how many…