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Wilhelm Röntgen

1845 - 1923

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Wilhelm Conrad Röntgen (; German: [ˈvɪlhɛlm ˈʁœntɡən] ; anglicized as Roentgen; 27 March 1845 – 10 February 1923) was a German physicist, who, on 8 November 1895, produced and detected electromagnetic radiation in a wavelength range known as X-rays or Röntgen rays, an achievement that earned him the inaugural Nobel Prize in Physics in 1901. In honour of Röntgen's accomplishments, in 2004, the International Union of Pure and Applied Chemistry (IUPAC) named element 111, roentgenium, a radioactive element with multiple unstable isotopes, after him. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Wilhelm Röntgen has received more than 2,724,792 page views. His biography is available in 134 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 132 in 2019). Wilhelm Röntgen is the 4th most popular physicist (up from 6th in 2019), the 21st most popular biography from Germany and the 2nd most popular German Physicist.

Wilhelm Röntgen was a German physicist who is most famous for discovering X-rays.

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Among PHYSICISTS

Among physicists, Wilhelm Röntgen ranks 4 out of 851. Before him are Isaac Newton, Albert Einstein, and Marie Curie. After him are Stephen Hawking, Michael Faraday, Max Planck, Alessandro Volta, Hans Christian Ørsted, Pierre Curie, Ernest Rutherford, and Niels Bohr.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1845, Wilhelm Röntgen ranks 1. After him are Alexander III of Russia, Ludwig II of Bavaria, Georg Cantor, George I of Greece, Gabriel Lippmann, Gabriel Fauré, Élie Metchnikoff, Amadeo I of Spain, Carl Spitteler, Charles Louis Alphonse Laveran, and Ludwig III of Bavaria. Among people deceased in 1923, Wilhelm Röntgen ranks 1. After him are Gustave Eiffel, Sarah Bernhardt, Vilfredo Pareto, Johannes Diderik van der Waals, John Venn, Princess Helena of the United Kingdom, Jaroslav Hašek, Constantine I of Greece, Pancho Villa, Warren G. Harding, and Joaquín Sorolla.

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In Germany

Among people born in Germany, Wilhelm Röntgen ranks 21 out of 7,253. Before him are Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel (1770), Richard Wagner (1813), Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz (1646), Peter Paul Rubens (1577), Max Weber (1864), and George Frideric Handel (1685). After him are Empress Elisabeth of Austria (1837), Frederick the Great (1712), Robert Schumann (1810), Friedrich Engels (1820), Max Planck (1858), and Johannes Brahms (1833).

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Among PHYSICISTS In Germany

Among physicists born in Germany, Wilhelm Röntgen ranks 2. Before him are Albert Einstein (1879). After him are Max Planck (1858), Werner Heisenberg (1901), Georg Ohm (1789), Heinrich Hertz (1857), Max Born (1882), Max von Laue (1879), Hermann von Helmholtz (1821), J. Hans D. Jensen (1907), Johannes Stark (1874), and Otto von Guericke (1602).

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