Interesting facts about wilhelm röntgen
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“Name the greatest of all inventors. Accident.” – Mark Twain
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 golden era, the age of scientists and inventors, the epoch of experiments and discoveries. The world was witnessing powerful miracles – Dalton had put forth his atomic theory (1808), Faraday had invented the dynamo (1831), Mendeleev had prepared the Periodic Table, Darwin’s voyage had started, Simpson had used chloroform for surgeries (1847), Snow had correlated cholera to water (1854), Pasteur had fixated on microorganisms for diseases, Lister chipped in with carbolic acid (1865), and Benz (car, 1885) and Bell (telephone, 1876) were already making the world a smaller place. The stage was set for the man to emerge from the shadows and etch his name in history.
Wilhelm Röntgen was born in the small town of Lennep in Germany on March 27, 1845. When he was three, his family moved to the Netherlands. A nature lover since he was a boy, he s
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I didn’t think; I investigated.
Röntgen 1896
Biography
- Born on March 27, 1845 in Lennep, Germany
- 1862 – Expelled from technical school in Utrecht, Netherlands
- 1865-1869 Completed PhD at the University of Zurich. Thesis: Studien über Gase [Studies on gases]
- 1870 – Appointed assistant to prominent physicist August Kundt (1839-1894); moved to Würzburg with him
- 1872 – Married Bertha Ludwig with whom he fathered no children. The pair adopted a daughter
- 1874 – Lecturer at the university of Strasbourg
- 1879 – Chair of physics at the university of Giessen
- 1888 – Chair of physics at the university of Würzburg
- 1895 – Studied cathode rays, leading to the discovery of X-rays on November 8, 1895 and the first human radiograph (the hand of his wife, Bertha) on December 22, 1895 – ‘Hand mit Ringen‘
- 1896 – Published his findings as Ueber eine neue Art von Strahlen [On a new type of rays]
- 1900 – Chair of Physics at the university of Munich, where he remained the rest of h
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Wilhelm C Roentgen (1845-1923) was a German physicist who is celebrated globally for his discovery of x-rays on 8 November 1895.
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Wilhelm Conrad Roentgen (Röntgen in German) was born on 27 March 1845 in Lennep, Germany. He attended the primary and secondary school run by Martinus Herman van Doorn in the town of Apeldoorn, Netherlands 1. Although born in Germany to a German father, his mother was Dutch, and he grew up in the Netherlands.
At the age of 17, he moved to Utrecht, also in the Netherlands, and enrolled in the Utrecht Technical School. A few years later, he was expelled because of a caricature of one of their teachers on the blackboard. In reality, he was innocent of this but refused to say who had been responsible 1.
In 1865, aged 20, Wilhelm enrolled at the Mechanical Technical Division of the Zurich Polytechnicab School in Switzerland. Three years later, he received the degree of mechanical engineer 1.
In 1869 he received his PhD in "Studies on Gases" from Zurich Polytechnicab School, where he remained until 1870.
In 1870 he followed h
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