List of Famous people with last name Rontgen

Wilhelm Röntgen

First Name Wilhelm

Last Name Röntgen

Born on March 27, 1845

Died on February 10, 1923 (aged 77)

Born in Germany, North Rhine-Westphalia, Remscheid

Wilhelm Conrad Röntgen was a German mechanical engineer and physicist, who, on 8 November 1895, produced and detected electromagnetic radiation in a wavelength range known as X-rays or Röntgen rays, an achievement that earned him the inaugural Nobel Prize in Physics in 1901. In honour of Röntgen's accomplishments, in 2004 the International Union of Pure and Applied Chemistry (IUPAC) named element 111, roentgenium, a radioactive element with multiple unstable isotopes, after him. The unit of measurement roentgen was also named after him.

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Julius Röntgen

First Name Julius

Last Name Röntgen

Died on September 13, 1932

Born in Germany, Saxony

Julius Engelbert Röntgen was a German-Dutch composer of classical music.

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Joachim Röntgen

First Name Joachim

Last Name Röntgen

Born on October 27, 1906

Died on December 6, 1989 (aged 83)

Born in Kingdom of the Netherlands, Netherlands, North Holland

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Edvard Frants Röntgen

First Name Edvard

Born on June 12, 1902

Died on September 14, 1969 (aged 67)

Born in Kingdom of the Netherlands, Netherlands, North Holland

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Frants Edvard Röntgen

First Name Frants

Born on April 28, 1904

Died on January 7, 1980 (aged 75)

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Johannes Röntgen

First Name Johannes

Last Name Röntgen

Born on September 30, 1898

Died on April 28, 1969 (aged 70)

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Engelbert Röntgen

Engelbert Johann Matthias Carel Röntgen

First Name Engelbert

Last Name Röntgen

Born on September 30, 1829

Died on December 12, 1897 (aged 68)

Born in Kingdom of the Netherlands, Netherlands, Overijssel

Engelbert Röntgen was a German violinist, for many years concertmaster of the Leipzig Gewandhaus Orchestra.

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