Wilhelm Conrad Röntgen, who
passed away on 10 February 1923, was a German mechanical engineer and
physicist, who, on 8 November 1895, produced and detected electromagnetic
radiation in a wavelength range 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 2004 the International Union of Pure and Applied
Chemistry (IUPAC) named element 111, roentgenium, a radioactive element with
multiple unstable isotopes, after him. The unit of measurement roentgen was
also named after him.
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