Wilhelm Röntgen
Physicist, Academic
1845 – 1923
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Who was Wilhelm Röntgen?
Wilhelm Conrad Röntgen was a German physicist, who, on 8 November 1895, produced and detected electromagnetic radiation in a wavelength range today that was known as X-rays or Röntgen rays, an achievement that earned him the first Nobel Prize in Physics in 1901. In honour of his accomplishments, in 2004 the International Union of Pure and Applied Chemistry named element 111, roentgenium, a very radioactive element with multiple unstable isotopes, after him.
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- Born
- Mar 27, 1845
Remscheid - Also known as
- Wilhelm Conrad Rontgen
- Wilhelm Conrad Roentgen
- Parents
- Spouses
- Anna Bertha Ludwig
(1872 - 1919)
- Anna Bertha Ludwig
- Children
- Nationality
- Germany
- Profession
- Education
- PhD, University of Zurich
( - 1869) - ETH Zurich
Mechanical Engineering - Institute of Martinus Herman van Doorn
- PhD, University of Zurich
- Employment
- University of Würzburg
- Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich
- University of Strasbourg
- University of Giessen
- Lived in
- Apeldoorn
- Remscheid
- Died
- Feb 10, 1923
Munich
Submitted
on July 23, 2013
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