1. William Roentgen

2. •Wilhelm Conrad Röntgen
•Born on March 27, 1845 in
Lennep, Prussia.
•Died on February 10, 1923 in
Munich, Germany.
•Greatest Accomplishment was
inventing the X-ray or Röntgen
rays be detecting
electromagnetic radiation with
wavelength range.
•“I didn't think; I experimented."

3. Background
 Was the only child of a manufacturer
of cloth, and a merchant . Charlotte
Constanze Frowein of Amsterdam
was his mother.
 Is of German Nationality.
 The family moved to Apeldoorn.

4. Education
 Roentgen went to boarding school, Institute of Martinus
Herman van Doorn while in Apeldoorn.
 After Martinus Herman van Doorn, he attended the
ambachts school from 1861-1863, in Utrecht.
 Attend the University of Utrecht were he received a Ph.D. in
Mechanical Engineering in 1869.
 Then the Federal Polytechnic Institute in Zurich.

5. Positions held
 A lecturer at the University of Strassburg in 1874.
 Was a professor at the Academy of Agriculture at
Hohenheim,Württemberg in 1875.
 In 1876, returned as a professor of physics at Strassburg.
 Rontgen was appointed the chair of physics at the University
of Giessen in 1879.
 Then obtained the physics chair at the University of
Würzburg in 1888.

6. Personal Life
 Rontgen married Anna Bertha Ludwig in 1872.
 Adopted Josephine Bertha Ludwig in 1887 at age 6, daughter
of Rontgen’s brother-in-law.
 On 10 February 1923 Rontgen died from carcinoma of the
intestine.
 In his will, he asked for his personal and scientific
correspondence to be destroyed.

7. Awards
 Was the first to received the
Nobel Prize in Physics in
1901.
 Rontgen donated all the
money to his university and
refused the rays to be
named after him.
 Rumford Medal in 1896
 Matteucci Medal in 1896
 Elliott Cresson Medal in 1897

8. References
 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wilhelm_Röntgenemained
 http://nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/physics/laureates/1901/rontgen-bio

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