Wilhelm Röntgen
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Name
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Wilhelm Conrad
Röntgen
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Birth date
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27 March 1845
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Place
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Lennep, Rhine
Province, Germany
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Died
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10 February
1923 (aged 77)
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Place
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Munich, Germany
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Nationality
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German
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Fields
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Physics
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X-ray astronomy
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Institutions
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University of
Strassburg
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University of
Hohenheim
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University of
Giessen
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University of
Würzburg
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University of
Munich
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Alma mater
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ETH Zurich
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University of
Zurich
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Doctoral
advisor
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August Kundt
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Doctoral
students
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Herman March
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Abram Ioffe
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Ernst Wagner
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Rudolf
Ladenburg
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Known for
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X-rays
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Notable awards
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Matteucci Medal
(1896)
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Rumford Medal
(1896)
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Elliott Cresson
Medal (1897)
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Barnard Medal
(1900)
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Nobel Prize in
Physics (1901)
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Wilhelm Conrad
Röntgen ( 27 March 1845 – 10 February 1923) was a German physicist
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On 8 November
1895, he produced and detected electromagnetic radiation in a wavelength
range known as X-rays or Röntgen rays.
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For this
achievement he was awarded the very first Nobel Prize in Physics in 1901.
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Like Pierre
Curie, Röntgen refused to take out patents related to his discovery, as he
wanted mankind as a whole to benefit from practical applications of the same
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He donated the
money for his Nobel prize to the University of Würzburg.
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With the
inflation following World War I, Röntgen fell into bankruptcy later in life,
spending his final years at his country home at Weilheim, near Munich.
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In keeping with
his will, all his personal and scientific correspondence was destroyed upon
his death.
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In honour of
his accomplishments, in 2004 the International Union of Pure and Applied
Chemistry (IUPAC) named element 111, roentgenium (Rg) , a radioactive element
with multiple unstable isotopes, after him. IUPAP adopted the name in
November 2011.
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In 1907 he
became a foreign member of the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and
Sciences.
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