Hanna Saltzman Biography Hanna Saltzman is a pediatric rheumatologist whose writing has appeared in River Teeth, The Sun, JAMA, Terrain.org, Intima, and elsewhere. See Work ESSAYS / Summer 2026 Rays of Wonder By Hanna Saltzman , Illustration by Nicole Natri On a Friday evening in November 1895, in a basement laboratory in Würzburg, Germany, a physicist named Wilhelm Röntgen wrapped a glass tube in black cardboard, hoping to investigate a mysterious form of energy.
