Back
العربية
Wilhelm Röntgen
Wilhelm Röntgen · Erwin Hanfstaengl, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
Person

Wilhelm Röntgen

1845 – 1923 · aged 78

German physicist (1845–1923)

Born
27 Mar 1845 · Lennep
Died
10 Feb 1923 · Munich
Part ofGermany1,250 BCE – todayKingdom of Prussia1679 – 1918German Empire1797 – 1918Weimar Republic1834 – 1933

Life timeline

Their life from birth to death. On the timeline, world events of the time are shown faintly.

Showing 90 years
  1. 27 Mar 1845BornBorn in Lennep
  2. 1896AwardMatteucci Medal
  3. 1896AwardRumford Medal
  4. 1898AwardElliott Cresson Medal
  5. 1900AwardBarnard Medal for Meritorious Service to Science
  6. 1901AwardBavarian Maximilian Order for Science and Art
  7. 1901AwardHonorary member of the Physics Association (Frankfurt am Main, Germany)
  8. 1901AwardNobel Prize in Physics
  9. 1909AwardHonorary citizenship
  10. 1918AwardHelmholtz Medal
  11. 10 Feb 1923DiedDied in Munich

Loading from Wikipedia and Wikidata…

Meanwhile in the world

Major world events during their lifetime (1845 – 1923).

  1. 1853 – 1856Crimean War
  2. 1857 – 1858Indian Rebellion of 1857
  3. 1870 – 1871Franco-Prussian War
  4. 18961896 Summer Olympics
  5. 1898Spanish–American War
  6. 1904 – 1905Russo-Japanese War
  7. 1914 – 1918World War I
  8. 1915 – 1923Armenian genocide
  9. 1917Balfour Declaration
  10. 1917February Revolution
  11. 1917October Revolution
  12. 1917 – 1922Russian Civil War
  13. 1919 – 1920Paris Peace Conference
  14. 1920Treaty of Versailles

Biography

Wilhelm Conrad Röntgen (27 March 1845 – 10 February 1923) was a German experimental physicist who produced and detected electromagnetic radiation in a wavelength range known as X-rays (known as Röntgen rays in many languages). In 1901, Röntgen became the first recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physics "in recognition of the extraordinary services he has rendered by the discovery of the remarkable rays subsequently named after him." The element roentgenium is named in his honor.

Text from the Wikipedia article Wilhelm Röntgen, CC BY-SA 4.0

About this information

Dates and life events come from this person’s Wikidata entry.

We only show events that the sources give a date for. Anything without a date is left out rather than guessed.