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    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...
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    X-ray (redirect from Röntgen ray)
    discovery because Röntgen had his lab notes burned after his death, but this is a likely reconstruction by his biographers: Röntgen was investigating...
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  • Roentgen (redirect from Röntgen)
    Röntgen or Roentgen may refer to: Roentgen (unit), unit of measurement for ionizing radiation, named after Wilhelm Röntgen Wilhelm Röntgen (1845–1923)...
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    Röntgen (9 May 1855 – 13 September 1932) was a German-Dutch composer of classical music. He was a friend of Liszt, Brahms and Grieg. Julius Röntgen was...
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    The roentgen or röntgen (/ˈrɛntɡən, -dʒən, ˈrʌnt-/; symbol R) is a legacy unit of measurement for the exposure of X-rays and gamma rays, and is defined...
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    Composer of the Week, Amanda Maier-Röntgen (1853-1894), Swedish sensation". BBC. Retrieved 4 June 2024. Amanda Röntgen-Maier at Svenskt kvinnobiografiskt...
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    and Röntgen overlie the eastern rim of the much larger walled plain Lorentz. The smaller crater Aston is separated from the eastern edge of Röntgen by...
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  • Heinrich Röntgen (c. 1787–1813), was one of four students recommended as explorers to Joseph Banks' African Association by Johann Friedrich Blumenbach...
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  • 1945 were derived from the roentgen unit, which was named after Wilhelm Röntgen, a German scientist who discovered X-rays. The unit name is misleading...
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    Lipinski Stradivarius; the violin remained with Röntgen and his descendants for three generations. Röntgen married Friedericke Pauline Klengel, daughter...
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  • Röntgen Peak (64°2′S 62°17′W / 64.033°S 62.283°W / -64.033; -62.283) is a peak 1 nautical mile (1.9 km) southeast of Cape Cockburn in the northeast...
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    Spektr-RG (Russian: Спектр-РГ, Spectrum + Röntgen + Gamma; also called Spectrum-X-Gamma, SRG, SXG) is a Russian–German high-energy astrophysics space...
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    In 1895, the dental X-ray was discovered by a German physicist, Wilhelm Röntgen. In the 20th century, new dental techniques and technology were invented...
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    The Röntgen Memorial Site in Würzburg, Germany, is dedicated to the work of the German physicist Wilhelm Conrad Röntgen (1845–1923) and his discovery...
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    gray and becquerel (author's translation from the German original)]", Röntgen-Blätter, 29 (1): 49–52, PMID 1251122. Lind, SC (1946), "New units for the...
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  • Society" in April, 1897, and "The Röntgen Society"; both were formed in the wake of the discovery of X-rays by Wilhelm Röntgen in 1895. The latter was founded...
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    The first Nobel Prize in Physics was awarded to German physicist Wilhelm Röntgen in recognition of the extraordinary services he rendered by the discovery...
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  • The Röntgen equivalent physical or rep (symbol rep) is a legacy unit of absorbed dose first introduced by Herbert Parker in 1945 to replace an improper...
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    Conrad Röntgen discovered the X-ray and noted that, while it could pass through human tissue, it could not pass through bone or metal. Röntgen referred...
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    Abraham Roentgen (30 January 1711 – 1 March 1793) was a German Ébéniste (cabinetmaker). Roentgen was born in Mülheim am Rhein, Germany. He learned cabinet...
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    the author, his friend since their time together in Zürich, Wilhelm Röntgen. Röntgen, unlike his friend, was an exceptionally shy and self-contained scholar...
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    Theories of gravitation Quantum gravity Theory of everything Scientists Röntgen Witten Becquerel Lorentz Planck Curie Wien Skłodowska-Curie Sommerfeld...
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  • Charles Glover Barkla, titled The Spectra of the Fluorescent Röntgen Radiations ("Röntgen radiation" is an archaic name for "X-rays"). By 1913, Henry Moseley...
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    of gravitation Quantum gravity Theory of everything Scientists Witten Röntgen Becquerel Lorentz Planck Curie Wien Skłodowska-Curie Sommerfeld Rutherford...
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  • marked a shift towards measurements based on energy rather than charge. The Röntgen equivalent physical (rep), introduced by Herbert Parker in 1945, was the...
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  • which did not necessarily represent the effect on other media. Wilhelm Röntgen discovered X-rays on November 8, 1895, and their use spread very quickly...
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  • radiologic units of measurement gray and becquerel (author's translation from the German original)]", Röntgen-Blätter, 29 (1): 49–52, PMID 1251122. v t e...
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    of excitement following Wilhelm Conrad Röntgen's discovery of X-rays on 5 January. During the experiment, Röntgen "found that the Crookes tubes he had been...
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    1977 SI unit röntgen equivalent man rem 100 erg⋅g−1 × WR 1971 0.010 Sv Effective dose (E) sievert Sv J⋅kg−1 × WR × WT 1977 SI unit röntgen equivalent man...
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  • 1977 SI unit röntgen equivalent man rem 100 erg⋅g−1 × WR 1971 0.010 Sv Effective dose (E) sievert Sv J⋅kg−1 × WR × WT 1977 SI unit röntgen equivalent man...
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