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06 JANUARY 2012
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Wilhelm Conrad Röntgen
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In March 1845, Wilhelm was born off the
lower Rhine Province of Germany.
Wilhelm’s father (Friedrich Conrad Rontgen
of Lennep) was a popular cloth merchant
and his mother (Charlotte Constanze
Frowein of Amsterdam) was from descendents within the commerce and industry
fields. 1
Today, we honor Wilhelm by using his
name within physics and medicine to demonstrate ionizing
radiation measurements to x-ray exposure called ―Roentgen‖
or pronounced as ―Rent Jen.‖ In 1901, Rontgen won the Nobel Prize for his discovery of ―x-rays‖. Back in those times,
these invisible rays were considered by leading scientists to
be ―unknown.‖ In fact, that is where the term x-ray comes
from or its genuine definition of x-rays being ―unknown‖ in origin.
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Basically, Wilhelm knew that x-rays are created when a
mass flow of electrons hit a tungsten-made target surface
area called an anode. Like Einstein, Rontgen attended Polytechnic Institute in Zurich, Switzerland and became a lecturer
of physics at the universities of Strasbourg (1876-1879), Giessen (1879-1877, Wurzburg (1888-1900), and Munich (1900
-1920) later in his career. Wilhelm would later marry (Anna
Bertha Ludwig of Zurich) and soon after pass away four years
after his wife passing on February 10th, 1932 from intestinal
cancer. 2 Biomeds owe him gratitude for his research for the
reason that without his discoveries we most likely would not
have a definitive way to measure x-ray exposure output on
today’s x-ray medical devices.
References:
1. Glasser, Otto., Wilhelm Conrad Rontgen and trhe Early
History of Roentgen X-rays. Norman Publishing. 1993.
Print.
2. Wilhelm Conrad Rontgen: Biograpghy. NobelPirze.Org. Ac
cessdate 13 Oct 2011. http://www.nobelprize.org/
nobel_prizes/physics/laureates/1901/rontgen-bio.html
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