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Wilhelm Röntgen's Life And Accomplishments

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Wilhelm Röntgen EmilyAnne Hart Wilhelm Röntgen won many awards including the first Nobel Prize in Physics. He was the first scientist to win the prize in 1901. He studied under many worldwide known scientists, most from Germany. He is mostly known for his discoveries in electricity, mechanics, and heat. Wilhelm Röntgen was born and lived Germany, had many discoveries, and accidentally made the discovery of the x-rays. Röntgen was born in Germany in 1845 and was an only child. Röntgen grew up in the Netherlands after his family moved there in 1848. He received his early education at a boarding school. Then in 1861 he attended Utrecht Technical School, but in 1863 he was expelled for some prank that he did not do. Even though he was not gifted in schoolwork he was good at making mechanical objects. In 1865 he entered into the University of Utrecht even though he did not have the right criteria to get …show more content…

Then in 1870 his first discovers were published in heat and gases. He then discovered the phenomenon of the ability to occupy less space of water by the spreading of oil drops on water. When he accidentally placed a piece of fluorescent mineral covered cardboard near his experimental set he noticed when the cathode ray was turned on the cardboard started to glow in the dark. He then intentionally did an experiment on this miraculous discovery. Röntgen used a vacuum tube that is used in a cathode ray that was covered tightly with a thin black piece of cardboard and placed it in a dark room. As a discharge on a screen covered with fluorescent barium platinum cyanide, which was placed near the device, he recorded the bright glow. He found out that the fluorescence happened by an agent which could infiltrate from within the vacuum tube. This was impermeable to visible or ultraviolet radiation. He named the agent as x-rays or Röntgen rays. He then found out that x-rays could pass through solid

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