Roetgen

Life of Wilhelm Roetgen

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    Rontgen Timeline

  • Birth

  • Entered Utrecht Techinal school

    later kicked out

  • Attempted to go to University of Utrecht

    Didn't have prequsisites required
  • Graduated from University of Zurich with a mechanical engineering degree

    Graduated from University of Zurich with a mechanical engineering degree

  • First published work

    Dealt with the specific heats of gases

  • Marriage

    Married Anna Bertha Ludwig in Apeldoorn, Netherlands

  • Lecturer at Strasbourg University

  • Professor of the Academy of Agriculture at Hohemheim in Wurrtemberg, Germany

  • Returned to professor of Strasbourg

  • Chair of Physics at the University of Giessen

  • Declined job offer at University of Jena

    Same position he held at Giessen

  • Adopted Josephine Bertha Ludwig

    She was six at the time

  • Declined offer from University of Utrecht

  • Chair of Physics at University of Wurzberg

  • Rontgen working with cathode rays

    Previous work on cathode rays from previous scientists helped him discover.
  • Discovered first x-ray

    Discovered first x-ray

  • "On a new kind of rays"

    more researching

  • Declined job at University of Leipzig

  • Chair of Physics at University of Munich

  • Won First Nobel Piece Prize of Physics in Stockholm

  • Declined offer from Carnegie Institute

  • Died

    died of carcinoma of the intestine