Wilhelm Röntgen, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

Wilhelm Röntgen

German physicist

Date of Birth: 27-Mar-1845

Place of Birth: Lennep, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany

Date of Death: 10-Feb-1923

Profession: engineer, professor, physicist

Zodiac Sign: Aries

Wilhelm Conrad Röntgen (; German: ['v?lh?lm '?œntg?n]; 27 March 1845 – 10 February 1923) was a German mechanical engineer and physicist, who, on 8 November 1895, produced and detected electromagnetic radiation in a wavelength range known as X-rays or Röntgen rays, an achievement that earned him the first Nobel Prize in Physics in 1901.
In honour of his accomplishments, in 2004 the International Union of Pure and Applied Chemistry (IUPAC) named element 111, roentgenium, a radioactive element with multiple unstable isotopes, after him.