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Wilhelm Röntgen

Wilhelm Röntgen (1845-1923) was a German physicist and winner of the 1901 Nobel Prize in Physics.

He was born on March 27, 1845 in Lennep, Germany. He received a Ph.D. from the University of Zurich in 1869. In the first decade of his career, he taught at three different universities: Hohenheim in Württemberg; Strasbourg University; and the University of Giessen. In 1888, he went to the University of Würzburg.

Scientific Contributions

In 1870, Röntgen published his first work, which discussed specific heats of gases. He later published many other papers that dealt with a wide range of subjects including thermal conductivity of crystals, electrical characteristics of quartz, and the influence of pressure of the refractive indices of fluids.

However, he is most well-known for his discovery of x-rays. In 1895, he was examining a phenomenon that occurred when passing an electric current through a gas in an extremely low pressure tube. He soon discovered that rays (which he believed to be cathode rays) were having a fluorescent effect on cardboard coated

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Wilhelm Röntgen

German physicist (1845–1923)

Wilhelm Conrad Röntgen (;^[4]German:[ˈvɪlhɛlmˈʁœntɡən]^ⓘ; anglicized as Roentgen; 27 March 1845 – 10 February 1923) was a German physicist^[5] who produced and detected electromagnetic radiation in a wavelength range known as X-rays. As a result of this discovery, he became the first recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1901.^[6]^[7]

Biographical history

Education

He was born to Friedrich Conrad Röntgen, a German merchant and cloth manufacturer, and Charlotte Constanze Frowein.^[8] When he was aged three, his family moved to the Netherlands, where his mother's family lived.^[8] Röntgen attended high school at Utrecht Technical School in Utrecht, Netherlands.^[8] He followed courses at the Technical School for almost two years.^[9] In 1865, he was unfairly expelled from high school when one of his teachers intercepted a caricature of one of the teachers, which was drawn by someone else.

Without a high school diploma, Rön

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Wilhelm Conrad Röntgen (1845–1923)

Physicist

Wilhelm Conrad Röntgen came into the world in the little Prussian town of Lennep on 25 March 1845 as the son of a Rheinland cloth merchant. Presumably for business reasons, the family moved to the Dutch town of Apeldoorn. After attending a private school, Röntgen continued his education at the Technical School in Utrecht from August 1862. Two years later, however, he was rejected for the "Abitur" (equivalent of A-Levels) on disciplinary grounds, despite his excellent marks.

Application at the Federal Polytechnic Institute

This rejection and a failed entrance exam meant that he could not complete a fully recognised degree in the Netherlands. This fact prompted him – after one-year stint as a guest lecturer at the University of Utrecht – to apply to the Federal Polytechnic Institute in Zurich.

Admission at the Federal Polytechnic Institute

The Polytechnic normally demanded a successful entrance exam as an admission requirement for a degree. Nevertheless Röntgen was accepted as a student at the Mechanical-Technical Scho