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{{Infobox person
| name        = Wilhelm Conrad Röntgen 
| image       = Roentgen2.jpg
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| caption     = 
| birth_name  = 
| birth_date  = {{Birth date|1845|03|27}}
| birth_place = [[Lennep]], [[Germany]]
| death_date  = {{Death date and age|1923|02|10|1845|03|27}}
| death_place = [[Munich]], [[Germany]]
| nationality = German
| other_names = 
| known_for   = Discovery of [[X-rays]]
| occupation  = [[Physicist]]
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'''Wilhelm Conrad Röntgen''' (27 March 1845 {{mdash}} 10 February 1923) was a [[Germany|German]] [[physicist]] who discovered [[X-ray]]s. In 1901, he was the first person to win the [[Nobel Prize in Physics]].<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://www.nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/physics/laureates/ |title=All Nobel Prizes in Physics |publisher=NobelPrize.org |accessdate=August 13, 2013}}</ref>

==Early life==
Röntgen was born at Lennep in the Lower Rhine Province of Germany. His father was a manufacturer and dealer of cloth. His mother was of an old Lennep family which had settled in Amsterdam. Röntgen was three when his family moved to Apeldoorn in The Netherlands.<ref name=ront>{{Cite web|url=http://nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/physics/laureates/1901/rontgen-bio.html|title=A biography of Wilhelm Conrad Röntgen|accessdate=2010-02-28}}</ref>

==Education==
In Apeldoorn, he attended the Institute of Martinus Herman van Doorn, a boarding school. In 1862, he attended a technical school at Utrecht, but was expelled. He then entered the University of Utrecht in 1865 to study physics.<ref name=ront/>

He entered the Polytechnic at [[Canton of Zürich|Zurich]] as a student of [[mechanical engineering]]. He worked in the laboratory of Kundt. In 1869 he graduated Ph.D. at the [[University of Zurich]]. He became Kundt's assistant and went with him to Würzburg. Three years later, they went to Strasbourg.<ref name=ront/>

==Career==
Röntgen held positions in various European universities, but his fame rests with his discovery of (what he called) x-rays. He received many honours and awards, doctorates, and honorary doctorates. He was a modest man who enjoyed the outdoors and mountain climbing.<ref name=ront/>

==Personal==
Röntgen was married to Anna Bertha Ludwig (m. 1872, d. 1919) and had one child, Josephine Bertha Ludwig. The child was adopted at age 6, in 1887. She was the daughter of Anna's brother.<ref name=ront/>

Röntgen died on 10 February 1923 from carcinoma of the intestine in [[Munich]], [[Germany]], aged 77.<ref name=ront/>

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