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Wilhelm Conrad Röntgen

Born

in Lennep, Kingdom of Prussia, German Confederation, Germany

March 27, 1845

Died

February 10, 1923

Genre

Nonfiction, Physics

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Wilhelm Conrad Röntgen (1845 – 1923) 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 Nobel Prize in Physics in 1901. In honour of Röntgen's accomplishments, in 2004 the International Union of Pure and Applied Chemistry (IUPAC) named element 111, roentgenium, a radioactive element with multiple unstable isotopes, after him. The unit of measurement roentgen was also named after him. ...more

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	Short Nonfiction Collection, Vol. 036 by Bill Clinton (Goodreads Author) (Contributor), Emily Post (Contributor), Kaye M. Shedlock (Contributor) liked it 3.00 avg rating — 3 ratings — published 2015	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Röntgen Rays: Memoirs by Wilhelm Conrad Röntgen, George Gabriel Stokes (Creator), J.J. Thomson (Creator) 3.50 avg rating — 2 ratings — 19 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	On a New Kind of Ray liked it 3.00 avg rating — 2 ratings — 4 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Röntgen Rays: Memoirs by Röntgen, Stokes, and J. J. Thomson by George Frederick Barker, Wilhelm Conrad Röntgen it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 1 rating — published 2015 — 45 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Wilhelm Conrad Röntgen: Über eine neue Art von Strahlen. Drei Aufsätze über die Entdeckung der Röntgenstrahlen 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings — published 2012	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Zur Geschichte der Physik an der Universität Würzburg: Festrede zur Feier des Dreihundert und Zwölften Stiftungstages der ... 1894 (Classic Reprint) 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings — published 2013 — 4 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Über eine neue Art von Strahlen by Wilhelm Conrad Röntgen, Dirk Bertram (Editor) 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Eine neue art von strahlen 1896 [Leather Bound] 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Grundlegende Abhandlungen über die X-Strahlen. 1915 [Leather Bound] 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Weitere Beobachtungen über die Eigenschaften der X-Strahlen: Ein tiefer Einblick in die geheimnisvollen X-Strahlen 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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“I was working with a Crookes tube covered by a shield of black cardboard. A piece of barium platino-cyanide paper lay on the bench there. I had been passing a current through the tube, and I noticed a peculiar black line across the paper. ...
The effect was one which could only be produced in ordinary parlance by the passage of light. No light could come from the tube because the shield which covered it was impervious to any light known even that of the electric arc. ...
I did not think I investigated. ...
I assumed that the effect must have come from the tube since its character indicated that it could come from nowhere else. ... It seemed at first a new kind of invisible light. It was clearly something new something unrecorded. ...
There is much to do, and I am busy, very busy.

[Describing to a journalist the discovery of X-rays that he had made on 8 Nov 1895.]”
― Wilhelm Conrad Röntgen

tags: discoverer-of-x-rays, discovery, electromagnetism, light, nobel-prize, physics, science, x-ray

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“If the hand be held between the discharge-tube and the screen, the darker shadow of the bones is seen within the slightly dark shadow-image of the hand itself... For brevity's sake I shall use the expression 'rays'; and to distinguish them from others of this name I shall call them 'X-rays'.”
― Wilhelm Conrad Röntgen

tags: discovery, electromagnetism, light, nobel-laureate, nobel-prize, physics, science, x-rays

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