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Röntgen or Roentgen may refer to: * Roentgen (unit), unit of measurement for ionizing radiation, named after Wilhelm Röntgen * Wilhelm Röntgen (1845–1923), German physicist, discoverer of X-rays * Abraham Roentgen (1711–1793), German cabinetmaker * David Roentgen (1743–1807), German cabinetmaker, son of Abraham Roentgen * Gerhard Moritz Roentgen (1795–1852), Dutch and German entrepreneur and engineer * Engelbert Röntgen (1829–1897), German-Dutch violinist * Heinrich Röntgen (1787–1813), German explorer * Julius Röntgen (1855–1932), German-Dutch composer of classical music, son of Engelbert Röntgen * Kevin Roentgen Kevin Roentgen (pronounced "rent-gehn") is an American singer, songwriter, record producer and formerly guitarist for the rock band Orson, who is currently based in Nashville, Tennessee. Roentgen is previously known for fronting L.A. rock band ..., musician, singer with American rock band Orson * ''Roentgen'' (album), by Japanese singer Hyde ...
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Roentgen (unit)
The roentgen or röntgen (; symbol R) is a legacy unit of measurement for the exposure of X-rays and gamma rays, and is defined as the electric charge freed by such radiation in a specified volume of air divided by the mass of that air (statcoulomb per kilogram). In 1928, it was adopted as the first international measurement quantity for ionizing radiation to be defined for radiation protection, as it was then the most easily replicated method of measuring air ionization by using ion chambers. It is named after the German physicist Wilhelm Röntgen, who discovered X-rays and was awarded the first Nobel Prize in Physics for the discovery. However, although this was a major step forward in standardising radiation measurement, the roentgen has the disadvantage that it is only a measure of air ionisation, and not a direct measure of radiation absorption in other materials, such as different forms of human tissue. For instance, one roentgen deposits of absorbed dose in dry air, o ...
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Wilhelm Röntgen
Wilhelm Conrad Röntgen (; 27 March 1845 – 10 February 1923), sometimes Transliteration, transliterated as Roentgen ( ), was a German physicist who produced and detected electromagnetic radiation in a wavelength range known as X-rays. As a result of this discovery, he became the first recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1901.Novelize, Robert. ''Squire's Fundamentals of Radiology''. Harvard University Press. 5th ed. 1997. p. 1. Biographical history Education Röntgen was born in Lennep on 27 March 1845 to Friedrich Conrad Röntgen, a German merchant and cloth manufacturer, and Charlotte Constanze Frowein. When he was aged three, his family moved to the Netherlands, where his mother's family lived, rendering him Statelessness, stateless. He attended high school at Utrecht Technical School in Utrecht, Netherlands. He followed courses at the Technical School for almost two years. In 1865, he was unfairly expelled from high school when one of his teachers intercepted a ...
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Abraham Roentgen
Abraham Roentgen (30 January 1711 – 1 March 1793) was a German Ébéniste (cabinetmaker). Roentgen was born in Mülheim am Rhein, Germany. He learned cabinet making from his father. At age 20, he traveled to The Hague, Rotterdam and Amsterdam, learning from established cabinet makers. He became known for his marquetry work, and worked in London (in the workshop of William Gomm) until 1738. On 18 April 1739, he married Susanne Marie Bausch from Herrnhut. His son, David Roentgen, was born on 11 August 1743. In 1753 they migrated to the Moravian settlement at Neuwied, near Koblenz Koblenz ( , , ; Moselle Franconian language, Moselle Franconian: ''Kowelenz'') is a German city on the banks of the Rhine (Middle Rhine) and the Moselle, a multinational tributary. Koblenz was established as a Roman Empire, Roman military p ..., where he established a furniture manufactory. Upon his retirement in 1772 his son David took over the business and established his own reputation. A ...
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David Roentgen
David Roentgen (1743 in HerrnhaagFebruary 12, 1807), was a German cabinetmaker of the eighteenth century, famed throughout Europe for his marquetry and his secret drawers and poes and mechanical fittings. His work embraces the late Rococo and the Neoclassical styles. Chronology In 1753 his father Abraham Roentgen, who had trained in London in the workshop of William Gomm, migrated to the Moravian settlement at Neuwied, near Coblenz, where he established a furniture factory. David learned his trade in his father's workshop, inherited the paternal business in 1772, and entered into partnership with the clockmaker Kintzing. By that time, the name of the firm was well known, even in France. Oddly he is remembered in France as one of the foreign cabinetmakers and workers in marquetry who, like Jean-François Oeben and Jean Henri Riesener, achieved distinction during the closing years of the Ancien Régime. Since Paris was the style center of Europe, he opened a show-room, ...
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Gerhard Moritz Roentgen
Gerhard Moritz Roentgen (1795–1852) was a Dutch Navy officer, machine building engineer and ship builder. As of 1823 he was involved in founding the Nederlandsche Stoomboot Maatschappij (NSM). At first he was one of NSM two chief executives. Later on, he was the only executive till 1849. The invention of the marine compound steam engine is Roentgen's main scientific achievement. Early life Youth and service in the navy Gerhard Moritz Roentgen, known in the Netherlands as Gerhard Mauritz Roentgen, was the fourth son of Ludwig Roentgen and Sophia Margaretha Tischbein. Ludwig was a minister and the inspector of the orphanage and poor house in Esens, Ostfriesland. Ludwig's father descended from the artistic cabinet maker family Roentgen from Neuwied on the Rhine. Till his 13th year, Roentgen lived in Esens, which had become part of the Kingdom of Holland by then. In 1808 he joined the Dutch naval academy in Enkhuizen, which he left as midshipman in 1810. Together with 30 ...
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Engelbert Röntgen
Engelbert Röntgen (30 September 1829 – 12 December 1897)Obituary
'' Signale für die musikalische Welt'' 1897, volume 64 page 1011. Austrian National Library.
was a German violinist, for many years concertmaster of the .


Life

He was born in in the Netherlands, the son of Johann Röntgen, a German merchant, and his Dutch wife. He entered the
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Heinrich Röntgen
Heinrich Röntgen (c. 1787–1813), was one of four students recommended as explorers to Joseph Banks' African Association by Johann Friedrich Blumenbach, the others being Friedrich Hornemann, Ulrich Seetzen, and Johann Ludwig Burckhardt. All died in Africa. Following the disappearance of British diplomat Benjamin Bathurst near Berlin Berlin ( ; ) is the Capital of Germany, capital and largest city of Germany, by both area and List of cities in Germany by population, population. With 3.7 million inhabitants, it has the List of cities in the European Union by population withi ... in 1809, Röntgen accompanied Bathurst's wife Phillida when she travelled to Germany to search for her husband. Notes {{DEFAULTSORT:Rontgen, Heinrich 1780s births 1813 deaths 19th-century German explorers German explorers of Africa ...
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Julius Röntgen
Julius Engelbert Röntgen (9 May 1855 – 13 September 1932) was a German-Dutch composer of classical music. He was a friend of Liszt, Brahms and Grieg. Early life and education Julius Röntgen was born in Leipzig, Germany, to a family of musicians. His father, the Dutch-born Engelbert Röntgen, was first violinist in the Leipzig Gewandhaus Orchestra, Gewandhaus orchestra in Leipzig; his mother, Pauline Klengel, was a pianist, an aunt of the renowned cellist Julius Klengel, born in 1859. Julius was a gifted child. Neither he nor his sisters attended school; he was taught music by his parents and grandparents, and other subjects by private tutors. His first piano teacher was Carl Reinecke, the director of the Gewandhaus orchestra, while his early compositions were influenced by Reinecke, but also by Robert Schumann, Franz Liszt and Johannes Brahms. In 1870, at the age of 14, Julius Röntgen visited Liszt in Weimar; after playing piano for him he was invited to a soiree at Lis ...
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Kevin Roentgen
Kevin Roentgen (pronounced "rent-gehn") is an American singer, songwriter, record producer and formerly guitarist for the rock band Orson, who is currently based in Nashville, Tennessee. Roentgen is previously known for fronting L.A. rock bands American Pearl ( Wind-Up Records), SOUL (Elektra Records) and Goldsboro. Following the break-up of American Pearl, Roentgen spent most of 2003 in the studio writing and demo-ing new songs. The result was Praying Hands, ''The Acoustic EP'', recorded and co-produced by Noah Shain at White Buffalo Studio in Hollywood. In 2005, Roentgen joined L.A. band Orson as a guitarist. In 2006, Orson released their debut, Bright Idea (Mercury Records), which contained the single, No Tomorrow. Orson went on to win the Brit Award in 2007 for Best International Breakthrough Act. In the Fall of 2007, Orson released the album Culture Vultures, containing the single Ain't No Party. The full length Praying Hands album entitled Dogs and Airplanes was ...
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Roentgen (album)
''Roentgen'' is the debut album by Hyde, released on March 27, 2002. It was released on his own label Haunted Records, a division of Sony's Ki/oon Records. The cover of the regular edition is an X-ray of Hyde's own skull. "The Cape of Storms" was used as the theme song for the movie '' Last Quarter'' (2004), which Hyde starred in. An English version of the album (titled ''Roentgen English'' in Japan) was released on July 4, 2002, worldwide and October 14, 2004, in Japan. The album ranked fifth on the Oricon , established in 1999, is the holding company at the head of a Japanese corporate group that supplies statistics Statistics (from German language, German: ', "description of a State (polity), state, a country") is the discipline that ... chart. Background and release An English version was released overseas on July 4. A Japanese release of the English version, titled ''Roentgen English'', was released on October 14, 2004. That version came with three bonus song ...
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Röntgen Rays
An X-ray (also known in many languages as Röntgen radiation) is a form of high-energy electromagnetic radiation with a wavelength shorter than those of ultraviolet rays and longer than those of gamma rays. Roughly, X-rays have a wavelength ranging from 10 nanometers to 10  picometers, corresponding to frequencies in the range of 30  petahertz to 30  exahertz ( to ) and photon energies in the range of 100  eV to 100 keV, respectively. X-rays were discovered in 1895 by the German scientist Wilhelm Conrad Röntgen, who named it ''X-radiation'' to signify an unknown type of radiation.Novelline, Robert (1997). ''Squire's Fundamentals of Radiology''. Harvard University Press. 5th edition. . X-rays can penetrate many solid substances such as construction materials and living tissue, so X-ray radiography is widely used in medical diagnostics (e.g., checking for broken bones) and materials science (e.g., identification of some chemical elements and dete ...
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Roentgenium
Roentgenium () is a synthetic chemical element; it has symbol Rg and atomic number 111. It is extremely radioactive and can only be created in a laboratory. The most stable known isotope, roentgenium-282, has a half-life of 130 seconds, although the unconfirmed roentgenium-286 may have a longer half-life of about 10.7 minutes. Roentgenium was first created in December 1994 by the GSI Helmholtz Centre for Heavy Ion Research near Darmstadt, Germany. It is named after the physicist Wilhelm Röntgen ( also spelled Roentgen), who discovered X-rays. Only a few roentgenium atoms have ever been synthesized, and they have no practical application. In the periodic table, it is a d-block transactinide element. It is a member of the 7th period and is placed in the group 11 elements, although no chemical experiments have been carried out to confirm that it behaves as the heavier homologue to gold in group 11 as the ninth member of the 6d series of transition metals. Roentgenium is cal ...
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