The presence of X-rays by German physicist Wilhelm Conrad Röntgen is celebrated every year as World Radiology Day. At the 118th anniversary, let's meet Wilhelm Conrad X-Ray.
He was born on March 27, 1845 in Lennep, Germany, as the only child of a family that traded clothes. When he was three years old, his family moved to Holland. Here, he studied at the Martinus Herman Van Doorn Institute. In 1862 he started his education in a technical school in Utrecht. Then in 1865 he went to the University of Utrecht to study physics. Here, on the condition that he passed a special examination, he moved to Zurich Polytechnic University. After passing the exam, he started studying mechanical engineering. Here he took lessons by Clausius and Kundt. In 1869, he received a doctorate from the University of Zurich, where he began working as an assistant to Kundt. In 1874 he started working as a lecturer at the University of Strasbourg. received his professorship at the same university in 1876. The first work of Röntgen was published in 1870. One of the areas where he worked was to investigate the electrical and other properties of quartz. The X-ray name is mostly associated with the discovery called X-rays. His work on cathode rays gave him a chance to discover X-rays. He won many awards for his work. Röntgen was very fond of mountaineering, so many times he survived dangers. He did all his work alone. He made the most of the tools he used. Dr. Rontgen married Anna Bertha Ludwig, whom she met in a cafe run by her father. They had no children, but they adopted one of the children of his wife's brother. He died in Munich on 10 February 1923, 4 years after his wife's death.
