This book, which will appeal to all with an interest in the history of radiology and physics, casts new light on the life and profession of Wilhelm Conrad Röntgen, demonstrating how his character was formed by his youth in the Netherlands and his instructors in Switzerland. Beyond this, it checks out the technical advancements relevant to the birth of radiology in the late nineteenth century and examines the effect of the discovery of X-rays on a broad series of clinical research. Röntgen (1845-1923) was born in Lennep, Germany, but emigrated with his household to the Netherlands in1848 As a 17- year-old he relocated to Utrecht, going into the Technical School and living at the home of Dr. Jan Willem Gunning. In this well-read family he was promoted to continue his research studies at university. In 1868 he got a diploma from the Federal Polytechnic School in Zurich and just a year later completed a PhD in physics. He followed his coach, August Kundt, to the universities of Würzburg (1870) and Strasburg (1872) and married Anna Ludwig in1872 In 1879 Röntgen gained his very first professorship at a German University, in Giessen, followed by a chair in Würzburg in1888 Here he found X-rays in 1895, for which he got the very first Nobel Reward in physics in1901 From 1900 until his retirement in 1921 he inhabited the chair of physics at the Munich University.
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