Wilhelm Conrad Röntgen

Wilhelm Conrad Röntgen was a physicist, professor, and engineer born in Lennep in 1845. He received his education at ETH Zurich, the University of Zurich, Utrecht University, and Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München. His professional career included positions at the University of Würzburg, University of Giessen, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München, and University of Hohenheim. He worked in Würzburg and Munich and was a member of the Royal Prussian Academy of Sciences, the Bavarian Academy of Sciences and Humanities, the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences, and the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences.

Röntgen received the Nobel Prize in Physics, the Elliott Cresson Medal, the Helmholtz Medal, and the Rumford Medal. His notable works include *Ueber den Einfluss der Compressions-wärme auf die Bestimmungen der Compressibilität von Flüssigkeiten*, *Nouvelles observations sur les propriétés des rayons X.*, and *Weitere Beobachtungen über die Eigenschaften der X-Strahlen*. He died of colorectal cancer in Munich on 10 February 1923. His doctoral students included Abram Ioffe, Ernst Wagner, and Rudolf Ladenburg.