Wilhelm Röntgen

Wilhelm Röntgen discovered x-rays. He was

• French

• Dutch

• German

• Hungarian

World Radiography Day is November 8

This is the day Wilhelm Röntgen

• Was born

• Was awarded his Nobel Prize

• Discovered x-rays

• Died

Röntgen's x-ray discovery, and the patent on it

• Is owned by the Röntgen family.

  They are now very rich

• Is owned by Siemens

• Can be yours for about $100 billion

• Was never taken out, so society could benefit

Röntgen's first anatomical x-ray was of

• His hand

• His wife's hand

• A cadaver

• The Intern

You can visit the lab where Röntgen first produced x-rays. It is in

• Wurzburg, Germany

• Munich, Germany

• Bern, Switzerland

• An exclusion zone, contaminated by radiation

Röntgen discovered x-rays in

• 1924

• 1913

• 1895

• 1845

There is an element named in Röntgen's honour. Number 111. It is:

• Wilhelmercury

• Roentgenium

• Wilhelium

• Roentgenainium

• X-radium

There is a mountain peak named in Röntgen's honour. Röntgen Peak is in:

• The Artic

• Antartica

• Africa

• America

• Australia

Röntgen's journal article on his discovery was titled

• On A New Kind Of Rays

• The Dawn of Skeletal Images

• Cathode Ray Tube Produces Invisible Energy

• Hand mit Ringen

• Mein Kampf

In his later years, Röntgen:

• Was a successful business man

• Declared bankruptcy

• Moved to America

• Was killed in WWI