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  title info:
    title: Wilhelm Conrad Röntgen
    sub title: The Birth of Radiology
  name:
    name part: Rosenbusch, Gerd.
    role:
      role term: creator
    role:
      role term: author.
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      role term: aut
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  name:
    name part: de Knecht-van Eekelen, Annemarie.
    role:
      role term: author.
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      role term: aut
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      role term: http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut
  name:
    name part: SpringerLink (Online service)
  type of resource: text
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: gw
    date issued: 2019
    edition: 1st ed. 2019.
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: electronic
    form: electronic resource
    reformatting quality: access
    form: remote
    extent: XVII, 203 p. 71 illus., 31 illus. in color. online resource.
  abstract: This book, which will appeal to all with an interest in the history of radiology and physics, casts new light on the life and career of Wilhelm Conrad Röntgen, showing how his personality was shaped by his youth in the Netherlands and his teachers in Switzerland. Beyond this, it explores the technical developments relevant to the birth of radiology in the late nineteenth century and examines the impact of the discovery of X-rays on a broad range of scientific research. Röntgen (1845-1923) was born in Lennep, Germany, but emigrated with his family to the Netherlands in 1848. As a 17-year-old he moved to Utrecht, entering theTechnical School and living at the home of Dr. Jan Willem Gunning. In this well-educated family he was stimulated to continue his studies at university. In 1868 he received a diploma from the Federal Polytechnic School in Zurich and just a year later completed a PhD in physics. He followed his mentor, August Kundt, to the universities of Würzburg (1870) and Strasburg (1872) and married Anna Ludwig in 1872. In 1879 Röntgen gained his first professorship at a German university, in Giessen, followed by a chair in Würzburg in 1888. Here he discovered X-rays in 1895, for which he received the first Nobel Prize in physics in 1901. From 1900 until his retirement in 1921 he occupied the chair of physics at the Munich University.
  table of contents: 1) Born for Business, Raised for Science (1845-1865) -- 2) A Future in Physics (1865-1875) -- 3) Reliable Lecturer, Conscientious Investigator (1875-1895) -- 4) Enjoying the Company of Friends, Hiking, Hunting, Playing -- 5) A New Kind of Rays -- 6) Living the Life of a Celebrity (1900-1914) -- 7) World War I Changes Everything (1914-1923) -- 8) X-rays - Vista of Another World.
  note: by Gerd Rosenbusch, Annemarie de Knecht-van Eekelen.
  subject:
    topic: Radiology
  subject:
    topic: Medicine-History
  subject:
    topic: Imaging / Radiology
  subject:
    topic: History of Medicine
  classification: R895-920
  classification: 616.0757
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    title info:
      title: Springer eBooks
  related item:
    title info:
      title: Springer Biographies
  identifier: 9783319976617
  identifier: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-97661-7
  record info:
    record creation date: 190320
    record change date: 20191026021616.0
    record identifier: 978-3-319-97661-7