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Intro; Introduction; Wilhelm Conrad Röntgen: A European Citizen; X-Rays: A New Era in Medical Diagnostics and Therapy; Röntgen's Biographies; Chronology: The Life of Wilhelm Conrad Röntgen; Acknowledgements; Illustration Credits; Contents; 1: Born for Business, Raised for Science (1845-1865); The Röntgen Family; Birth and Early Childhood in Lennep (1845-1848); Youth in Apeldoorn (1848-1862); Living in Utrecht (1862-1865); Dr Jan Willem Gunning and Family; The Technical School (1862-1864); The Utrecht University (1865); 2: A Future in Physics (1865-1875) Studies at the Polytechnikum in Zurich (1865-1868)A Year at the Zurich University (1868-1869); Personal Life in Zurich; Assistant to Kundt; Röntgen's First Publication in the Annalen der Physik und Chemie (1870); Work in Würzburg; Marrying Bertha Ludwig; Strasbourg: A New University; Physics in Strasbourg; Röntgen's Publications (1872-1874); The Habilitation (1874); 3: Reliable Lecturer, Conscientious Investigator (1875-1895); Hohenheim (1875-1876); Back in Strasbourg (1876-1879); Experiments with Kundt; Röntgen's Individual Experiments; The Nomination in Giessen; The Giessen University Living and Working in Giessen (1879-1888)Röntgen's Assistants; Röntgen's Experiments in Giessen; Staying or Leaving; The Würzburg University; Röntgen's Position in Würzburg; Teaching and Lecturing; Assistants; Physics in Würzburg (1889-1895); Looking for a New Challenge; 4: Enjoying the Company of Friends, Hiking, Hunting, and Playing; There Is More in Life Than Physics; Summer in Pontresina; Spring Time in the Mediterranean; Winter in the Alps; Hunting; 5: A New Kind of Rays; Experiments in the Dark; The Path to the Discovery of the X-Rays; Cathode Rays; The Discovery; Spreading the News The Demonstration for the EmperorThe Only Public Lecture; The Only Interview; Zehnder's Correspondence with Röntgen on X-Rays; Two More Papers; Some Remarks on the Discovery; Who Could Have Discovered the X-Rays Earlier?; Ludwig Zehnder; Ivan Pului; Arthur Goodspeed and William Jennings; Philipp Lenard; 6: Living the Life of a Celebrity (1900-1914); Munich and Its University; Physics in Munich; Colleagues; Röntgen's 60th Birthday; Assistants in Munich; Franz Möller and Siegfried Valentiner; Peter Koch; Ernst Wagner; Other Assistants; Abram Joffe and His Work with Röntgen on Crystals; Students His First PhD Students in MunichStudents from Abroad; A Student's Personal Reminiscences; PhD Students Working on X-Rays; The Nobel Prize; Röntgen and the "Deutsches Museum"; Representation; 7: World War I Changes Everything (1914-1923); The Outbreak of World War I; The Manifest "An die Kulturwelt"; Life Goes On; The End of World War I; Bertha's Death; The Lonely Last Years; The Last Swiss Holidays; Working Till the End; Röntgen's Death; 8: X-Rays: Vista of Another World; On the Nature of the X-Rays; Haga and Wind; Walter and Pohl, Koch and Sommerfeld; Solving the Question |
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