Röntgen

[rent-guhn, -juhn, ruhnt-, rœnt-guhn, roont-khuhn]

noun

1. Julius 1855–1932, Dutch pianist, conductor, and composer; born in Germany.

2. Wilhelm Konrad Roentgen, Wilhelm Konrad.

Röntgen

¹

/ -tjən, ˈrɛnt-, ˈrɒntɡən, ˈrœntɡən /

noun

1. a variant spelling of (Wilhelm Konrad) Roentgen

röntgen

²

/ ˈrɒntɡən, -tjən, ˈrɛnt- /

noun

1. a variant spelling of roentgen

Example Sentences

If, for Anna Röntgen and Hans Castorp, the X-ray produced something that was undeniably and terrifyingly their own body, I was having the opposite experience.

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It wasn’t until 1895 that a physicist named Wilhelm Röntgen tried something new: He put the hand of his wife, Anna, between a cathode-ray tube and a photographic plate.

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Despite this rejection, Röntgen later donated his Nobel Prize money to the University of Würzburg.

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Röntgen’s academic career had a less-than-propitious start.

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In 1895, when the German physicist Wilhelm Röntgen discovered mysterious rays that could pass through muscles, tendons and skin, he trained these invisible beams of light onto his wife’s fingers and wedding bands.

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