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RONTGEN, WILHELM KONRAD (1845 ) , German physicist, was born at Lennep on the 27th of March
doctor
Academy
Hohenheim
ordinary professor. In 1879 he was chosen ordinary professor of physics and director of the Physical Institute at Giessen, whence in 1885 he removed in the same capacity to Wurzburg. It was at the latter place that he made the discovery for which his name is chiefly known, the Rontgen rays. In 1895, while experimenting with a highly exhausted vacuum tube on the conduction
paper screen covered with barium platinocyanide, which happened to be lying near, became fluorescent under the action of some radiation emitted from the tube, which at the time was enclosed in a box of black cardboard. Further investigation showed that this radiation had the power of passing through various substances which are opaque to ordinary light, and also of affecting a photographic plate
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aluminium . Rontgen also conducted researches in various other branches of physics, including elasticity, capillarity, the conduction
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