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Wilhelm Conrad Röntgen (/ ˈ r ɛ n t ɡ ə n,-dʒ ə n, ˈ r ʌ n t-/; [4] German: [ˈvɪlhɛlm ˈʁœntɡən] ⓘ; anglicized as Roentgen; 27 March 1845 – 10 February 1923) was a German physicist [5] who produced and detected electromagnetic radiation in a wavelength range known as X-rays.
Johann Wilhelm Ritter: Physicist and discoverer of Ultraviolet. Wilhelm Conrad Röntgen: Physicist and discoverer of x-rays/Röntgen rays (8 November 1895), this earned him the first Nobel Prize in Physics in 1901. Arthur Rudolph: Rocket engineer who, together with Wernher von Braun, played a key role in the development of the V-2 rocket.
Carl Schurz in 1860. A participant of the 1848 revolution in Germany, he immigrated to the United States and became the 13th United States Secretary of the Interior.. The Forty-eighters (48ers) were Europeans who participated in or supported the Revolutions of 1848 that swept Europe, particularly those who were expelled from or emigrated from their native land following those revolutions.
November 8 – Wilhelm Röntgen discovers the type of electromagnetic radiation later known as X-rays. November 17 – Flamengo, a well known professional football club in Brazil, is officially founded. [20] November 25 – Oscar Hammerstein opens the Olympia Theatre, the first theatre to be built in New York City's Times Square district.
The first "medical" X-ray, by Wilhelm Röntgen (1895) Max Planck is considered the father of the quantum theory. Sculpture of Einstein 's 1905 E = mc 2 formula at the 2006 Walk of Ideas , Berlin Geiger-Müller counter Electron microscope constructed by Ernst Ruska in 1933; two years after his first prototype Induced nuclear fission reaction
Röntgen Memorial Site, Röntgenring 8, Würzburg. The Röntgen Memorial Site in Würzburg, Germany, is dedicated to the work of the German physicist Wilhelm Conrad Röntgen (1845–1923) and his discovery of X-rays, for which he was granted the first Nobel Prize in physics, in 1901. It contains an exhibition of historical instruments, machines ...
Wilhelm Röntgen (1845–1925) The use of X-rays as an important medical diagnostic tool began with their discovery in 1895 by German physicist Wilhelm Röntgen . He noticed that these rays could penetrate the skin, allowing the skeletal structure to be captured on a specially treated photographic plate .
Wilhelm Röntgen (1845–1923): German 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 first Nobel Prize in Physics in 1901 [107] Giuseppe Mercalli (1850–1914): Italian volcanologist and Catholic priest ...