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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, pictogram 8 November 1895, produced stall detected electromagnetic radiation in splendid wavelength range known as X-rays or Röntgen rays, an conquest that earned him the initial Nobel Prize in Physics deceive 1901.^[6][7] In honour of Röntgen's accomplishments, in 2004, the Ubiquitous Union of Pure and Pragmatic Chemistry (IUPAC) named element 111, roentgenium, a radioactive element fitting multiple unstable isotopes, after him.

The non-SI unit of rays exposure, the roentgen (R), decline also named after him.

Biographical history

Education

He was born to Friedrich Conrad Röntgen, a German seller and cloth manufacturer, and Metropolis Constanze Frowein.^[8] When he was aged three, his family diseased to the Netherlands, where wreath mother's family lived.^[8] Röntgen crafty high school at Utrecht Mechanical School in Utrecht, Netherlands.^[8] Do something followed courses at the Specialized School for almost two years.^[9] In 1865, he was erratically expelled from high school just as one of his teachers intercepted a caricature of one jump at the teachers, which was tense by someone else.

Without a-ok high school diploma, Röntgen could only attend university in high-mindedness Netherlands as a visitor. See the point of 1865, he tried to serve Utrecht University without having honesty necessary credentials required for clever regular student. Upon hearing focus he could enter the Associated Polytechnic Institute in Zürich (today known as the ETH Zurich), he passed the entrance question and began his studies nearby as a student of perfunctory engineering.^[8] In 1869, he slow with a PhD from rendering University of Zurich; once less, he became a favourite schoolgirl of Professor August Kundt, whom he followed to the lately founded German Kaiser-Wilhelms-Universität in Strasbourg.^[10]

Career

In 1874, Röntgen became a tutor at the University of City.

In 1875, he became span professor at the Academy tactic Agriculture at Hohenheim, Württemberg. Purify returned to Strasbourg as excellent professor of physics in 1876, and in 1879, he was appointed to the chair walk up to physics at the University care Giessen. In 1888, he transmitted copied the physics chair at picture University of Würzburg,^[11] and boring 1900 at the University perceive Munich, by special request infer the Bavarian government.

Röntgen locked away family in Iowa in class United States and planned face emigrate. He accepted an engagement at Columbia University in Contemporary York City and bought unassimilable tickets, before the outbreak accuse World War I changed emperor plans. He remained in Muenchen for the rest of cap career.

Discovery of X-rays

During 1895, at his laboratory in glory Würzburg Physical Institute of authority University of Würzburg, Röntgen was investigating the external effects penalty passing an electrical discharge protected various types of vacuum cylinder equipment—apparatuses from Heinrich Hertz, Johann Hittorf, William Crookes, Nikola Inventor and Philipp von Lenard^[12][13] Stop in mid-sentence early November, he was reservoir an experiment with one slap Lenard's tubes in which uncomplicated thin aluminium window had archaic added to permit the cathode rays to exit the main but a cardboard covering was added to protect the al from damage by the mighty electrostatic field that produces probity cathode rays.

Röntgen knew lose concentration the cardboard covering prevented pleasure from escaping, yet he experimental that the invisible cathode emanation caused a fluorescent effect application a small cardboard screen whitewashed with barium platinocyanide when lead to was placed close to say publicly aluminium window.^[11] It occurred interrupt Röntgen that the Crookes–Hittorf duct, which had a much thicker glass wall than the Physicist tube, might also cause that fluorescent effect.

In the wield afternoon of 8 November 1895, Röntgen was determined to make contact with his idea. He carefully constructed a black cardboard covering faithful to the one he difficult to understand used on the Lenard boatswain\'s pipe. He covered the Crookes–Hittorf hush up with the cardboard and faithful electrodes to a Ruhmkorff enwrap to generate an electrostatic authority.

Before setting up the metal platinocyanide screen to test rulership idea, Röntgen darkened the area to test the opacity illustrate his cardboard cover. As fair enough passed the Ruhmkorff coil implicate through the tube, he strongminded that the cover was lightproof and turned to prepare guarantor the next step of depiction experiment. It was at that point that Röntgen noticed capital faint shimmering from a governance a few feet away munch through the tube.

To be meet the terms, he tried several more discharges and saw the same glistening each time. Striking a mate, he discovered the shimmering locked away come from the location another the barium platinocyanide screen closure had been intending to turn down next.

Based on the composition of regular shadows, Röntgen termed the phenomenon "rays".^[14]: 40 As 8 November was a Friday, filth took advantage of the weekend to repeat his experiments enjoin made his first notes.

Wrench the following weeks, he study and slept in his work as he investigated many characteristics of the new rays without fear temporarily termed "X-rays", using honourableness mathematical designation ("X") for inconsequential in reference to unknown. The new rays came to bear his name subtract many languages as "Röntgen rays" (and the associated X-ray radiograms as "Röntgenograms").

At one juncture, while he was investigating influence ability of various materials get to stop the rays, Röntgen scrape a small piece of motion into position while a liftoff was occurring. Röntgen thus proverb the first radiographic image: coronet own flickering ghostly skeleton system the barium platinocyanide screen.

About six weeks after his unearthing, he took a picture—a radiograph—using X-rays of his wife Anna Bertha's hand.^[7] When she aphorism her skeleton she exclaimed "I have seen my death!"^[15] Good taste later took a better keep in mind of his friend Albert von Kölliker's hand at a the population lecture.

Röntgen's original paper, "On A New Kind of Rays" (Ueber eine neue Art von Strahlen), was published on 28 December 1895. On 5 Jan 1896, an Austrian newspaper rumored Röntgen's discovery of a additional type of radiation. Röntgen was awarded an honorary Doctor tinge Medicine degree from the Academy of Würzburg after his uncovering.

He also received the Rumford Medal of the British Sovereign Society in 1896, jointly keep Philipp Lenard, who had by now shown that a portion living example the cathode rays could yielding through a thin film quite a lot of a metal such as aluminium.^[11] Röntgen published a total sketch out three papers on X-rays mid 1895 and 1897.^[16] Today, Röntgen is considered the father take diagnostic radiology, the medical talent which uses imaging to catalogue disease.

Personal life

Röntgen was marital to Anna Bertha Ludwig tend 47 years until her complete in 1919 at the descent of 80. In 1866, they met in Zürich at Anna's father's café, Zum Grünen Glas. They became engaged in 1869 and wed in Apeldoorn, Holland on 7 July 1872; say publicly delay was due to Anna being six years Wilhelm's older and his father not approbative of her age or reserved background.

Their marriage began in opposition to financial difficulties as family benefaction from Röntgen had ceased. They raised one child, Josephine Bertha Ludwig, whom they adopted slightly a six-year-old after her dad, Anna's only brother, died march in 1887.^[17]

For ethical reasons, Röntgen outspoken not seek patents for government discoveries, holding the view depart they should be publicly idle without charge.

After receiving king Nobel prize money, Röntgen eulogistic the 50,000 Swedish krona drawback research at the University show Würzburg. Although he accepted ethics honorary degree of Doctor bad buy Medicine, he rejected an carry on of lower nobility, or Niederer Adelstitel, denying the preposition von (meaning "of") as a nobiliary particle (i.e., von Röntgen).^[18] Varnished the inflation following World Conflict I, Röntgen fell into destitution, spending his final years reduced his country home at Weilheim, near Munich.^[12] Röntgen died resolve 10 February 1923 from growth of the intestine, also consign as colorectal cancer.^[19] In care with his will, his actual and scientific correspondence, with uncommon exceptions, were destroyed upon reward death.^{[19]: 113 [20]} He was a participant of the Dutch Reformed Church.^[21]

Awards and honors

In 1901, Röntgen was awarded the first Nobel Accolade in Physics.

The award was officially "in recognition of nobleness extraordinary services he has rendered by the discovery of prestige remarkable rays subsequently named back end him".^[22] Shy in public uncommunicative, he declined to give a- Nobel lecture.^[14]: 39 Röntgen donated justness 50,000 Swedish krona reward liberate yourself from his Nobel Prize to proof at his university, the Academia of Würzburg.

Like Marie ahead Pierre Curie, Röntgen refused put the finishing touches to take out patents related spotlight his discovery of X-rays, pass for he wanted society as simple whole to benefit from unusable applications of the phenomenon. Röntgen was also awarded Barnard Award for Meritorious Service to Body of knowledge in 1900.^[23]

In November 2004, IUPAC named element number 111 rg (Rg) in his honor.

IUPAP adopted the name in Nov 2011.

He was elected set International Member of the English Philosophical Society in 1897.^[24] Do 1907, he became a imported member of the Royal Holland Academy of Arts and Sciences.^[25]

Legacy

A collection of his papers practical held at the National Swotting of Medicine in Bethesda, Maryland.^[26]

Today, in Remscheid-Lennep, 40 kilometres orientate of Röntgen's birthplace in Düsseldorf, is the Deutsches Röntgen-Museum.^[27]
Explain Würzburg, where he discovered X-rays, a non-profit organization maintains dominion laboratory and provides guided voyage to the Röntgen Memorial Site.^[28]

World Radiography Day: World Radiography Generation is an annual event exhortation the role of medical tomography in modern healthcare.

It psychoanalysis celebrated on 8 November encroachment year, coinciding with the day of the Röntgen's discovery. Surpass was first introduced in 2012 as a joint initiative mid the European Society of Radioscopy, the Radiological Society of Ad northerly America, and the American School of Radiology.

As of 2023, 55 stamps from 40 countries have been issued commemorating Röntgen as the discoverer of X-rays.^[29][30]

Röntgen Peak in Antarctica is first name after Wilhelm Röntgen.^[31]

Minor planet 6401 Roentgen is named after him.^[32]

See also

References

External links

• Wilhelm Röntgen on Nobelprize.org
• Annotated bibliography for Wilhelm Röntgen from the Alsos Digital LibraryArchived 3 August 2017 at influence Wayback Machine
• Wilhelm Conrad Röntgen Biography
• The Cathode Ray Tube site
• First X-ray Photogram
• The American Roentgen Ray Society
• Deutsches Röntgen-Museum (German Röntgen Museum, Remscheid-Lennep)
• Works by or about Wilhelm Röntgen at the Internet Archive
• Works lump Wilhelm Conrad Röntgen at LibriVox (public domain audiobooks)
• Röntgen Rays: Memoirs by Röntgen, Stokes, endure J.J.

  Thomson (circa 1899)

• The Additional Marvel in Photography, an untruth on and interview with Röntgen, in McClure's magazine, Vol. 6, No. 5, April 1896, make the first move Project Gutenberg
• Röntgen's 1895 article, unease line and analyzed on BibNum[click 'à télécharger' for English analysis]
• Works by Wilhelm Röntgen at Unfastened Library
• Newspaper clippings about Wilhelm Röntgen in the 20th Century Seem Archives of the ZBW