Wilhelm Röntgen
- Prize
- Nobel Prize in Physics — 1901in recognition of the extraordinary services he has rendered by the discovery of the remarkable rays subsequently named after him
- Citizenship
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Weimar Republic 
German Empire 
Kingdom of Prussia - Languages
- German
- date of birth
- 3/27/1845
- place of birth
- Lennep
- date of death
- 2/10/1923
- place of death
- Munich
- Lived
- 77 years
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- educated at
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- ETH Zurich
- academic major: mechanical engineering
- start time: October 1865
- end time: 8/6/1868
- University of Strasbourg
- academic degree: professor
- start time: 4/1/1872
- University of Zurich
- academic degree: Doctor of Philosophy
- Utrecht University
- Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München
- ETH Zurich
- employer
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- University of Würzburg
- start time: 8/31/1888
- Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München
- start time: 4/1/1900
- end time: 4/1/1920
- University of Giessen
- start time: 1879
- University of Hohenheim
- start time: 1875
- University of Zurich
- University of Strasbourg
- University of Würzburg
- member of
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- Accademia Nazionale dei Lincei
- start time: 8/2/1898
- Physikalisch-medizinische Gesellschaft zu Würzburg
- start time: 1870
- Academy of Sciences of Turin
- start time: 6/14/1903
- Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences
- start time: 1907
- Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences
- Royal Prussian Academy of Sciences
- Académie Nationale de Médecine
- Göttingen Academy of Sciences and Humanities in Lower Saxony
- Accademia Nazionale delle Scienze detta dei XL
- Bavarian Academy of Sciences and Humanities
- Accademia Nazionale dei Lincei
- doctoral student
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- Abram Ioffe
- Herman March
- Rudolf Ladenburg
- Emil Silbernagel
- John Patrick Donaghey
- Ernst Wagner
- field of work
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- physics
- occupation
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- engineer
- professor
- physicist
- notable work
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- X-ray
- work location
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- Munich
- Würzburg
- position held
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- professor