Wilhelm roentgen wife

German physicist (1845–1923)

Wilhelm Conrad Röntgen (;^[4]German:[ˈvɪlhɛlmˈʁœntɡən]^ⓘ; anglicized as Roentgen; 27 March 1845 – 10 February 1923) was a German physicist,^[5] 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.^[6][7] 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 non-SI unit of radiation exposure, the roentgen (R), is also named after him.

Biographical history

Education

He was born to Friedrich Conrad Röntgen, a German merchant and cloth manufacturer, and Charlotte Constanze Frowein.^[8] When he was aged three, his family moved to the Netherlands, where h