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  1. Wilhelm Röntgen. Wilhelm Conrad Röntgen ( / ˈrɛntɡən, - dʒən, ˈrʌnt -/; [3] German pronunciation: [ˈvɪlhɛlm ˈʁœntɡən] ⓘ; 27 March 1845 – 10 February 1923) was a German mechanical engineer and physicist, [4] who, on 8 November 1895, produced and detected electromagnetic radiation in a wavelength range known as X-rays or ...

  2. Apr 18, 2024 · Wilhelm Conrad Röntgen (born March 27, 1845, Lennep, Prussia [now Remscheid, Germany]—died February 10, 1923, Munich, Germany) was a physicist who received the first Nobel Prize for Physics, in 1901, for his discovery of X-rays, which heralded the age of modern physics and revolutionized diagnostic medicine. Wilhelm Conrad Röntgen.

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  3. Mar 26, 2021 · X-rays, discovered by the German physicist Wilhelm Röntgen (27 March 1845 – 10 February 1923), were the first of those scientific breakthroughs that literally changed our view of the world. Röntgen, who himself took the first radiographic images in history, saw this from the very beginning. But beyond their medical applications, which today ...

  4. Nov 24, 2009 · On November 8, 1895, physicist Wilhelm Conrad Röntgen (1845-1923) becomes the first person to observe X-rays, a significant scientific advancement that would ultimately benefit a variety of ...

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  6. Wilhelm Conrad Röntgen 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 ...

  7. May 23, 2018 · RöNTGEN (ROENTGEN), WILHELM CONRAD. ( b. Lennep im Bergischen [now part of Remscheid], Rhine Province, Germany, 27 March 1845; d. Munich, Germany, 10 February 1923) physics. Röntgen was the only son of Friedrich Conrad Röntgen, a cloth manufacturer and merchant of Lennep, who belonged to an old Lutheran Rhineland family.

  8. Nov 1, 2020 · Abstract. Röntgen’s discovery of a new type of radiation is the epochal event in a series of highlights of physics emerging within only a few decades of the late 19th century. As these discoveries are directly or indirectly rooting in the study of the phenomenon of electric discharge in gases a brief look at the physics scenario in the ...

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