Biografia de roentgen

ANNA BERTHA ROENTGEN (1833-1919): LA MUJER DETRAS DEL HOMBRE

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I didn’t think; I investigated.

Röntgen 1896

Biography

• Born on March 27, 1845 in Lennep, Germany
• 1862 – Expelled from technical school in Utrecht, Netherlands
• 1865-1869 Completed PhD at the University of Zurich. Thesis: Studien über Gase [Studies on gases]
• 1870 – Appointed assistant to prominent physicist August Kundt (1839-1894); moved to Würzburg with him
• 1872 – Married Bertha Ludwig with whom he fathered no children. The pair adopted a daughter
• 1874 – Lecturer at the university of Strasbourg
• 1879 – Chair of physics at the university of Giessen
• 1888 – Chair of physics at the university of Würzburg
• 1895 – Studied cathode rays, leading to the upptäckt of X-rays on November 8, 1895 and the first human radiograph (the hand of his wife, Bertha) on December 22, 1895 –  ‘Hand okänt Ringen‘
• 1896 – Published his findings as Ueber eine neue Art von Strahlen [On a new type of
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On the 27th of March 1845 at 4 pm Wilhelm Conrad Röntgen sees the light of day in Lennep. As the only child of wealthy cloth merchant Friedrich Conrad Röntgen and his wife Charlotte Constanze he is raised in the Dutch City of Apeldoorn, where his family moves three years after his birth.

Röntgen attends several schools and then enrolls at the Swiss Federal Polytechnic School in Zürich. He obtains his diploma as a mechanical engineer within three years and completes his final examinations with top marks. Röntgen prepares his dissertation with the title „Studies on gases“. Inspired by the diligence and ability of his protégé, Prof. Dr. Kundt takes him along as an assistant when he receives an appointment at the Julius Maximilians University Würzburg in 1870.

On the 19th of January 1872, Röntgen marries Bertha Ludwig in Apeldoorn. They have been a couple since his student days in Zürich. Bertha is the daughter of the university-educated innkeeper in Röntgen‘s favorite pub „The Green