Wilhelm Roentgen
Wilhelm Conrad Roentgen was born on March 27, 1845 in Lennep, Germany to Friedrich and Charlotte Constance Roentgen. When he was three Wilhelm and his family moved to Apeldoorn, Nederland. His father owned a thriving cloth business so he was pretty well off. He lived right next to the Kostschool of Martinus Hermanus van Doorn, a boarding school with around eighty students, which he attended.
He was expected after he graduated to go into his father’s business and eventually inherit it. At sixteen, he finished van Doorn’s school. His parents thought he was too young to start working, and he had a strong desire to learn, so a few years later, he ended up at the University of ...
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of their fraternity. Then on May 9 he joined a scientific society called "Natura Dux nobis et auspex" (Nature is our leader and protector).
Wilhelm didn’t like keeping house so, he found a room with the family of a cabinetmaker. There he started writing his first book, called "Question for the Inorganic Part of the Chemistry Textbook", under the pen name of Dr J. W. Gunning. As you probably figured out that was the name of the man he had lived with in the past. People tried to find the real author but all they could find were the initials W.C.R. Wilhelm would later go to school in another college called Swiss Federal Technical School in Zurich, Switzerland. He was awarded a Doctor of Philosophy on June 22, 1869.
While he was attending the Swiss Federal Technical School, he met the beautiful Anna Bertha Ludwig at the Zum Grunen Glas, a cafe owned by her father. Wilhelm married Bertha on June 19, 1872 and they would later adopt a daughter.
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in Wurzburg, Germany.
By the time Professor Roentgen went to Wurzburg, he was labeled a great scientist and was well respected. Many felt that he was the "great German professor of the Victorian Age." When he moved, he brought his assistant, Ludwig Zehnder with him from Giessen to Wurzburg, just like Professor Kundt did with him. Roentgen has always been an efficient worker. Between the year 1889 to 1895 he published seventeen scientific papers, with only one of these with a co-author (his assistant Ludwig Zehnder). Because of his very hard work, Wilhelm was elected Rector (or president in today’s terms) for the years of 1894 and 1895.
Then, in 1894 someone ...
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