Wilhem Roentgen Flashcards

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Birthplace

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Lennep, Germany

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Birthday of Roentgen

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March 27, 1845

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Father

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Friedrich Conrad

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Father’s work

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Local textile merchant

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Mother

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Constance Charlotte Frowein

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His family moved to

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Apeldoom , Holland

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Attended primary and secondary

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Martinus Hermann van Doorn

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Arrived in Utrecht, Holland

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December 27, 1862

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A well known chemist

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Dr. Gunning

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He was expelled in this school

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Utrecht Technical School

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He lived at _______ where a Plaque was mounted in 1922 that read

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7 Seilergraben

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Anna Bertha Ludwig was the daughter of an innkeeper of

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Zum Grunen Glas

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Received the degree of Mechanical Engineer

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August 6, 1868

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Wilhem and Bertha were married on

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January 19,1872

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Roentgen became the assistant of

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Dr. August Kundt

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Roentgen wrote his dissertation on ______ for which he received his doctorate in Philosophy from the university of Zurich

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Studies on Gases

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He was called by ___ to offer hin gull professorship in Physics and Math

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Agricultural Academy of Stuttgart - Hohenheim

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He published 15 important papers and was offered full professorship in Giessen

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October 1, 1876

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He was recommended by

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Helmholtz
Kirchhoff
Kundt

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Roentgen adopted bertha’s niece

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Josephine Bertha Donges

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Roentgen produced ______ in Giessen

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18 important papers

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October 1, 1888 - he became the Professor of Physics and director of the new Physical Institute at the —-

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University of Wurzburg

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He elected as President Of the Julius Maximilians University of Wurzburg and produced

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17 important papers

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Experimental Electrical Discharge tube , invented by English physicist William Crookes were electrons was discovered

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Crookes Tube

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Induction Coil

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Ruhmkorff coil

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Known for cathode rays

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Philipp Lenard

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Measurement of current in a vacuum tube

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Johann Wilhelm Hittorf

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Known for Electromagnetic Radiation and Photoelectric Effect

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Heinrich Rudolf Hertz

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Invented crookes tube and discovered Thallium

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William Crookes

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The first recorded human xray was conducted on

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December 22, 1895

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He delivered his historic paper entitled

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“On a new kind of rays” / ein neue art von strahlem

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He delivered “On a new kind of rays” on

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December 28, 1895

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The object that glows after Roetgen’s experiment

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Barium Platinocyanide

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Roentgen demonstated his findings to

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Emperor Wilhelm of Berlin

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He demonstrated to the emperor to the Imperial Court on

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January 13, 1896

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The second xray was produced by

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Albert von kolliker

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Von kolliker proposed that the rays will be called

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Roentgen Rays

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He was awarded the first Nobel Prize in Physics on

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1901

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He died on

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February 10, 1923

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Took the entrance exam and on January 18,1865 registered to audit courses

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University of Utrecht