Wilhelm Röntgen
German engineer and physicist
Wilhelm Conrad Röntgen was a German mechanical engineer and physicist, who, on 8 November 1895, produced and detected electromagnetic radiation in a wavelength range known as X-rays or Röntgen rays, an achievement that earned him the inaugural... Wikipedia
Born: March 27, 1845, Lennep, Remscheid, Germany
Died: February 10, 1923 (age 77 years), Munich, Germany
Known for: Discovery of X-rays; Magnetoelectric effect; Dielectric elastomer EAPs
Spouse: Anna Bertha Ludwig (m. 1872–1919)
Education: University of Zurich (1869), ETH Zürich (1865–1868), and Institute of Martinus Herman van Doorn
Awards: Matteucci Medal, Rumford Medal, Elliott Cresson Medal, and more
Parents: Friedrich Conrad Röntgen and Charlotta Contanza Frowein
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Wilhelm Conrad Röntgen was a physicist who received the first Nobel Prize for Physics, in 1901, for his discovery of X-rays, which heralded the age of ...
In the spring of 1870, Professor. Kundt was called to the chair of physics at the Julius. Maximilians. University of. Wumzburg,. Germany, and invited. Roentgen.
Few scientific breakthroughs have had as immediate an impact as Wilhelm Conrad Roentgen's discovery of X-rays, a momentous event that instantly revolutionized ...
Abstract. W.C. Röntgen reported the discovery of X-rays in December 1895 after seven weeks of assiduous work during which he had studied the properties of this ...
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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.
Once upon a time there lived a man, in Würzburg, who discovered the magical rays that would go on to change the face of medicine! It was the 19th century, the ...
While rector and director of the Institute of Physics at the University of Würzburg, Röntgen experimented with the Crookes tube, a vacuum that interested him ...
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Posted: Jan 15, 2020
Posted: Jan 15, 2020