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=Wilhelm Conrad Rontgen=

27 March 1845 – 10 February 1923 Born in: Germany years of work: 1901 []

When he was three years old his family moved to The Netherlands, where he went to the a boarding school. In 1862 he entered a technical school at Utrecht, where he was however unfairly expelled, accused of having produced a caricature of one of the teachers, which was done by someone else. He then entered the University of Utrecht in 1865 to study physics. Not having attained the credentials required for a regular student, and hearing that he could enter the Polytechnic at Zurich by passing its examination, he passed this and began studies there as a student of mechanical engineering. In 1869 he graduated Ph.D. at the University of Zurich. In 1874 he qualified as Lecturer at Strasbourg University and in 1875 he was appointed Professor in the Academy of Agriculture at Hohenheim in Württemberg. In 1876 he returned to Strasbourg as Professor of Physics, but three years later he accepted the invitation to the Chair of Physics in the University of Giessen. In 1900 he accepted the Chair of Physics at the University of Munich. He remained for the rest of his life, although he was offered, but declined, the Presidency of the Physikalisch-Technische Reichsanstalt at Berlin and the Chair of Physics of the Berlin Academy.

Rontgen is the father of the X-ray. while working with experiments and procedures of previous scientists, Rontgen noticed that even through secured champers for light, and unknown energy was emitted that reacted with phosphorescent materials he was using in his experiments. his discovery and subsequent papers earned him the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1901. []

He used his wifes hand to determine if the new rays could pass through the body. []