What is Wilhelm Röntgen?
{{nobelprize|Physics}} {{Infobox person | name = Wilhelm Conrad Röntgen | image = Roentgen2.jpg | alt = | 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]] }} '''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,