Wilhelm Conrad Röntgen

Wilhelm Conrad Röntgen

• 1. Wilhelm Conrad Röntgen Wilhelm Conrad Röntgen
• 2. Wilhelm Conrad Röntgen Wilhelm Conrad Röntgen Röntgen was born on March 27, 1845, in the Lower Rhine Province of Germany.
• 3. Wilhelm Conrad Röntgen Wilhelm Conrad Röntgen He was the child of a merchant and cloth manufacturer. Röntgen was brought up in the Netherlands.
• 4. Wilhelm Conrad Röntgen's Career Nobel Physics Prize winner physicist. It is known with to find X-rays. (Röntgen rays)
• 5. Wilhelm Conrad Röntgen's Education Wilhelm Röntgen studied at the Polytechnic University of Zurich in 1865. Graduated in as a mechanical engineer.
• 6. Wilhelm Conrad Röntgen's Career In 1874 he commences as Lecturer at Strasbourg University. After that, in 1875 he was appointed Professor in the Academy of Agriculture at Hohenheim in Württemberg.
• 7. Wilhelm Conrad Röntgen's Career His first work was published dealing with the specific heats of gases. Followed later by a paper on the thermal conductivity of crystals. (in 1870)
• 8. Wilhelm Conrad Röntgen's Career In 1901, Wilhelm Röntgen was awarded the first Nobel Prize in Physics.
• 9. Wilhelm Conrad Röntgen's Career Wilhelm Conrad Röntgen was also awarded ‘Barnard Medal for Meritorious Service to Science’ in 1900.
• 10. Wilhelm Conrad Röntgen's Death Wilhelm Conrad Röntgen's died in 1923 of carcinoma of the intestine. It is not believed his carcinoma was a result of his work.