what was Wilhelm Rontgen's life like?
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Rontgen, Wilhelm Conrad (1845-1923) \nWilhelm Conrad Rontgen was born on March 27, 1845, at Lennep in the Lower Rhine Province of Germany, as the only child of a merchant in, and manufacturer of, cloth. His mother was Charlotte Constanze Frowein of Amsterdam, a member of an old Lennep family which had settled in Amsterdam. \n\nWhen he was three years old, his family moved to Apeldoorn in The Netherlands, where he went to the Institute of Martinus Herman van Doorn, a boarding school. He did not show any special aptitude, but showed a love of nature and was fond of roaming in the open country and forests. He was especially apt at making mechanical contrivances, a characteristic which remained with him also in later life. In 1862 he entered a technical school at Utrecht, where he was however unfairly expelled, accused of having produced a caricature of one of the teachers, which was in fact done by someone else.\n\nHe then entered the University of Utrecht in 1865 to study physics. Not having attained the credentials required for a regular student, and hearing that he could enter the Polytechnic at Zurich by passing its examination, he passed this and began studies there as a student of mechanical engineering. He attended the lectures given by Clausius and also worked in the laboratory of Kundt. Both Kundt and Clausius exerted great influence on his development. In 1869 he graduated Ph.D. at the University of Zurich, was appointed assistant to Kundt and went with him to Würzburg in the same year, and three years later to Strasbourg. \n\nIn 1874 he qualified as Lecturer at Strasbourg University and in 1875 he was appointed Professor in the Academy of Agriculture at Hohenheim in Wurtemberg. In 1876 he returned to Strasbourg as Professor of Physics, but three years later he accepted the invitation to the Chair of Physics in the University of Giessen. \n\nAfter having declined invitations to similar positions in the Universities of Jena (1886) and Utrecht (1888), he accepted it from the University of Würzburg (1888), where he succeeded Kohlrausch und found among his colleagues Helmholtz and Lorenz. In 1899 he declined an offer to the Chair of Physics in the University of Leipzig, but in 1900 he accepted it in the University of Munich, by special request of the Bavarian government, as successor of E. Lommel. Here he remained for the rest of his life, although he was offered, but declined, the Presidency of the Physikalisch-Technische Reichsanstalt at Berlin and the Chair of Physics of the Berlin Academy. \n\nRontgen's first work was published in 1870, dealing with the specific heats of gases, followed a few years later by a paper on the thermal conductivity of crystals. Among other problems he studied were the electrical and other characteristics of quartz; the influence of pressure on the refractive indices of various fluids; the modification of the planes of polarised light by electromagnetic influences; the variations in the functions of the temperature and the compressibility of water and other fluids; the phenomena accompanying the spreading of oil drops on water.\n\nRontgen's name, however, is chiefly associated with his discovery of the rays that he called X-rays. In 1895 he was studying the phenomena accompanying the passage of an electric current through a gas of extremely low pressure. Previous work in this field had already been carried out by J. Plucker (1801-1868), J. W. Hittorf (1824-1914), C. F. Varley (1828-1883), E. Goldstein (1850-1931), Sir William Crookes (1832-1919), H. Hertz (1857-1894) and Ph. von Lenard (1862-1947), and by the work of these scientists the properties of cathode rays - the name given by Goldstein to the electric current established in highly rarefied gases by the very high tension electricity generated by Ruhmkorff's induction coil-had become well known. Rontgen's work on cathode rays led him, however, to the discovery of a new and different kind of rays. \n\nOn the evening of N
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Well, if you are really interested in knowing about his life and his work, I strongly recomend you to watch the film "Hawking". It is a really great show. I too also admire him a lot. He is still alive till today.
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i found a website about his life but didnt mention about his childhood.  but just look to the websites and hope u can get any other informations
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I wasn't there, but currently I am an exchange student in germany. My host sister is studying math there, and she says it's absolutly beautiful. There is the 'Philosopher's Weg' (way) that has a lovely view, the old castel and Altstadt are also really pretty. I'm excited to be going there later in June! Good luck studying there! It's got a great rep and is beautiful to boot!
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Stuff like this almost always relates to something that happened during his childhood. What was his family like? Was anyone abusive to him? He's got to work that out on his own.
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He was a simple man who changed the destiny of India. He was unlike any politician or public figure anywhere in the world becuase he was an absolute antithesis of public leaders what we see today. Dressed in a small loin cloth he has a huge determination and innovative ways of fighting a freedom struggle. Isntead of guns, he fought the Britishers with weapons like non cooperation and non violence.  You got to read about him a lot to understand his philosophy becuase otherwise you wont understand him as most people in India and other countries dont.
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Those guys at stanford have a small one here:\nhttp://www.stanford.edu/group/King/about_king/biography/
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I personally worked with a woman who lost her entire family. They were separated and taken to the Belsen camp. Once the Germans could sqezze nothing more out of them, they got on the train for Auchswitz, the main gas murdering site and crematorium. Alot of poor, thin people were shot and thrown into pits full of other corpses, too, besides the gassing. My dear friend Isabella had the tattoo marking her "property of Belsen camp". No one else came out alive. And no, they weren't just taking the Jewish. But hitler was string on meth and he was a megalomaniac. The two don't mix.
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There are several good articles relating to this genius. One such article can be found at \nwww.rense.com/health/rife.htm
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Rudolph Virchow?\n\nhttp://scienceworld.wolfram.com/biography/Virchow.html\nhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rudolf_Virchow
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Martin Luther:  1483-1546  German theologian; leader of the German Reformation; translated Old and New Testaments into German.\n\nHe was a religious theologian or philosopher; he performed work as a translator as well; he was also a writer.
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Check out this website for info\n\nhttp://www.sparknotes.com/lit/huckfinn/
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If you read some of einstiens essays you will begin to see he was a man of strong moral conviction. WHO stood for peace and did not advocate war except as a last resort. type in einsteins name with essays and see for your self.
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At one point I lived in Germany for 2 1/2 years,and quite frankly I found it most agreable. Mostly I just liked the way most people seemed to actually stay out of other peoples business when their input wasn't required. It wasn't a thing where they didn't care though like it is in the US they just seemed to know basic boundaries,and I loved the all around atmosphere and I never met a nicer group of people to tell the truth,hard to believe they started two major wars in one century,lol. Anyway I guess that would be my first choice.
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I like the fact that he managed to live with uncertainty as a virtue, most people will go crazy if they don't have any beliefs to hold to ; but he kind of like that , he knew that he didn't know , but he still marvelled at things , he did so much advances in QED and other areas, but he didn't brag much about it ; he was truly concerned in learning but he was not a show off ( like the kind of people who ask question of wich they already know the answer :) , that made him real as a person, and I found that truly inspiring.
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Moritz Külling (1809 - ), heitaret 1834 Ursula Hablützel (1809 - ) von Wilchingen und ein Bruder des oben genannten Martin Külling (1812 - 1883) war, ...\nwww.kuelling.li/history.html-- This is as close as I can come to what you want.
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When he was a child ,he lived in a Jewish communities,people treated him and his family badly.\nWhen he was a soldier ,he had done a mission successfully but the officer did not give him a metal  as promised and laughed at him,the officer was a Jews.\nWhen the German soldiers fought hard in the front,some Jews politician and wealthy business man pushed the King excel to Switzerland and the unfair treaty singed.\nActually ,there were multiple reasons German lost the War and he disliked the Jews,was trying to kill all Jews because of their beliefs and he felt that Jews were not as good as Germans and after the War,Germans were suffered from the unfair treaty,he was using their anger to crabed the power,Jews were that " GOAT ".