German Physicist Wilhelm Roentgen, discoverer of X-rays, is remembered
Great Thinkers Datebook: March 27Wilhelm Konrad Roentgen (1845-1923), German physicist.
He discovered X-rays and received the first Nobel Prize in Physics in 1901.
In 1895, while teaching at Wuerzburg University, he discovered X-rays, fow which he was awarded the first Nobel Prize in Physics in 1901.
Roentgen also worked on the heats of gases, in particular, the heat conductivity of crystals and electricity.
