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    • Wilhelm Röntgen

    German physicist (–)

    Wilhelm Conrad Röntgen (;[4]German:[ˈvɪlhɛlmˈʁœntɡən]ⓘ; anglicized as Roentgen; 27 March &#;&#; 10 February ) was a German physicist,[5] who, on 8 November , 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 [6][7] In honour of Röntgen's accomplishments, in , the International Union of Pure and Applied Chemistry (IUPAC) named element , 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 his mother's family lived.[8]