EARLY LIFE
• Wilhelm Conrad Röntgen was born on March 27,
1845, at Lennep in the Lower Rhine Province of
Germany, as the only child of a merchant in, and
manufacturer of, cloth.
• When he was three years old, his family moved to
Apeldoorn in The Netherlands, where he went to the
Institute of Martinus Herman van Doorn, a boarding
school.
• He did not show any special aptitude, but showed a love
of nature and was fond of roaming in the open country
and forests.
EDUCATION
• In 1862 he entered a technical school at Utrecht, where
he was however unfairly expelled, accused of having
produced a caricature of one of the teachers, which was
in fact done by someone else.
• In 1865, he was unfairly expelled from high school when
one of his teachers intercepted a caricature of one of the
teachers, which was drawn by someone else.
• Without a high school diploma, Röntgen could only
attend university in the Netherlands as a visitor. Upon
hearing that he could enter the Federal Polytechnic
Institute in Zurichhe passed the entrance examination
and began studies there as a student of mechanical
engineering. In 1869, he graduated with a PhD from the
University of Zurich.
CAREER
• In 1874, Röntgen became a lecturer at the University of
Strasbourg. In 1875, he became a professor at the
Academy of Agriculture at Hohenheim, Württemberg.
• He returned to Strasbourg as a professor of physics in
1876, and in 1879, he was appointed to the chair of
physics at the University of Giessen.
• In 1888, he obtained the physics chair at the University
of Würzburg, and in 1900 at the University of Munich, by
special request of the Bavarian government. He
remained in Munich for the rest of his career.
Röntgen’s first work was published in 1870, dealing with
the specific heats of gases, followed a few years later by
a paper on the thermal conductivity of crystals.
• Among other problems he studied were the electrical
and other characteristics of quartz; the influence of
pressure on the refractive indices of various fluids; the
modification of the planes of polarised light by
electromagnetic influences; the variations in the
functions of the temperature and the compressibility of
water.
• Wilhelm Conrad Röntgen was born on March 27,
1845, at Lennep in the Lower Rhine Province of
Germany, as the only child of a merchant in, and
manufacturer of, cloth.
• When he was three years old, his family moved to
Apeldoorn in The Netherlands, where he went to the
Institute of Martinus Herman van Doorn, a boarding
school.
• He did not show any special aptitude, but showed a love
of nature and was fond of roaming in the open country
and forests.
EDUCATION
• In 1862 he entered a technical school at Utrecht, where
he was however unfairly expelled, accused of having
produced a caricature of one of the teachers, which was
in fact done by someone else.
• In 1865, he was unfairly expelled from high school when
one of his teachers intercepted a caricature of one of the
teachers, which was drawn by someone else.
• Without a high school diploma, Röntgen could only
attend university in the Netherlands as a visitor. Upon
hearing that he could enter the Federal Polytechnic
Institute in Zurichhe passed the entrance examination
and began studies there as a student of mechanical
engineering. In 1869, he graduated with a PhD from the
University of Zurich.
CAREER
• In 1874, Röntgen became a lecturer at the University of
Strasbourg. In 1875, he became a professor at the
Academy of Agriculture at Hohenheim, Württemberg.
• He returned to Strasbourg as a professor of physics in
1876, and in 1879, he was appointed to the chair of
physics at the University of Giessen.
• In 1888, he obtained the physics chair at the University
of Würzburg, and in 1900 at the University of Munich, by
special request of the Bavarian government. He
remained in Munich for the rest of his career.
Röntgen’s first work was published in 1870, dealing with
the specific heats of gases, followed a few years later by
a paper on the thermal conductivity of crystals.
• Among other problems he studied were the electrical
and other characteristics of quartz; the influence of
pressure on the refractive indices of various fluids; the
modification of the planes of polarised light by
electromagnetic influences; the variations in the
functions of the temperature and the compressibility of
water.
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