Wilhem Roentgen Flashcards
Birthplace
Lennep, Germany
Birthday of Roentgen
March 27, 1845
Father
Friedrich Conrad
Father’s work
Local textile merchant
Mother
Constance Charlotte Frowein
His family moved to
Apeldoom , Holland
Attended primary and secondary
Martinus Hermann van Doorn
Arrived in Utrecht, Holland
December 27, 1862
A well known chemist
Dr. Gunning
He was expelled in this school
Utrecht Technical School
He lived at _______ where a Plaque was mounted in 1922 that read
7 Seilergraben
Anna Bertha Ludwig was the daughter of an innkeeper of
Zum Grunen Glas
Received the degree of Mechanical Engineer
August 6, 1868
Wilhem and Bertha were married on
January 19,1872
Roentgen became the assistant of
Dr. August Kundt
Roentgen wrote his dissertation on ______ for which he received his doctorate in Philosophy from the university of Zurich
Studies on Gases
He was called by ___ to offer hin gull professorship in Physics and Math
Agricultural Academy of Stuttgart - Hohenheim
He published 15 important papers and was offered full professorship in Giessen
October 1, 1876
He was recommended by
Helmholtz
Kirchhoff
Kundt
Roentgen adopted bertha’s niece
Josephine Bertha Donges
Roentgen produced ______ in Giessen
18 important papers
October 1, 1888 - he became the Professor of Physics and director of the new Physical Institute at the —-
University of Wurzburg
He elected as President Of the Julius Maximilians University of Wurzburg and produced
17 important papers
Experimental Electrical Discharge tube , invented by English physicist William Crookes were electrons was discovered
Crookes Tube
Induction Coil
Ruhmkorff coil
Known for cathode rays
Philipp Lenard
Measurement of current in a vacuum tube
Johann Wilhelm Hittorf
Known for Electromagnetic Radiation and Photoelectric Effect
Heinrich Rudolf Hertz
Invented crookes tube and discovered Thallium
William Crookes
The first recorded human xray was conducted on
December 22, 1895
He delivered his historic paper entitled
“On a new kind of rays” / ein neue art von strahlem
He delivered “On a new kind of rays” on
December 28, 1895
The object that glows after Roetgen’s experiment
Barium Platinocyanide
Roentgen demonstated his findings to
Emperor Wilhelm of Berlin
He demonstrated to the emperor to the Imperial Court on
January 13, 1896
The second xray was produced by
Albert von kolliker
Von kolliker proposed that the rays will be called
Roentgen Rays
He was awarded the first Nobel Prize in Physics on
1901
He died on
February 10, 1923
Took the entrance exam and on January 18,1865 registered to audit courses
University of Utrecht
