Talk:Wilhelm Conrad Röntgen

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The "Early life and education" section is crap. It reads like a combination of an ad for his alma mater, plus formatting errors and sentence fragments.

i need help about mr wilhelm conrad rontgen. and i need story about him right now.

Could you be a little more specific? --DrTorstenHenning 09:24, 22 August 2005 (UTC)

I removed the first clause from the sentence "His investigative powers were so phenomenal that none of his conclusions have yet been proven false." to give the article a NPOV. --DavidConrad 04:25, 4 September 2005 (UTC)

Contents 1 Roentgen (spelling) 2 PLAGARISM 3 Radiograph 4 roentgen+ 5 Nothing after the Nobel? 6 Article name 7 Image 8 Ernst Werner von Siemens

[edit] Roentgen (spelling)

Roentgen is not only the English spelling, but also an alternative German spelling. --DrTorstenHenning 08:02, 21 October 2005 (UTC)

[edit] PLAGARISM

Can some editor please remove this article, it does not cite this source, but this web site has the same word to word text: http://www.algebra.com/algebra/about/history/Wilhelm-R%25C3%25B6ntgen.wikipedia Pkazazes 11:41, 27 January 2006 (UTC)

The first line on that web page's version of the article is "Please read Wikipedia founder Jimmy Wales's personal appeal." Let's consider whether that site or this one is likely to have been C+P from the other. Powers 15:15, 27 January 2006 (UTC)

This article was nominated for deletion on 27 January 2006. The result of the discussion was keep. An archived record of this discussion can be found here.

Punkmorten 15:51, 27 January 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Radiograph

The radiograph in the article is NOT that of von Kolliker. It is of Roentgen's wife, Berta. Her hand and her wedding rings are in the picture, and were included in the paper submitted, and given to the newspapers. Von Kolliker volunteered his hand be x-rayed during Roentgen's first public talk in Germany, but this radiograph is not of him.[1], also Wiki CommonsGaviidae 05:58, 17 July 2006 (UTC)

You are correct. This is not an image of von Killiker. This IS a picture of his wife's hand. I have seen this image on other sites that all state it as Roentgen's wife's hand.RHSB Scipio 22:10, 14 May 2007 (UTC)

No, it would seem you are both incorrect. Although this image was mistakenly uploaded as the image of Bertha's hand, even a casual glance at the link you just provided will show an obviously very different image. The talk page for the image established that this is the image of von Kolliker's hand. The image of Bertha's hand is of poorer quality, and of a left hand!! 72.177.116.87 15:30, 1 July 2007 (UTC)

Sorry, forgot to log in. The above message and associated change are mine. Xezlec 15:31, 1 July 2007 (UTC)

On further research, it appears they are in fact both left hands, but nonetheless this is definitely von Kolliker's. See [2]. Xezlec 15:48, 1 July 2007 (UTC)

Xezlec is right, but it should be noted that this image is widely mis-identified as Frau Roentgen's hand. I've seen several such misidentifications just doing casual Google-type research. Bigmac31 18:53, 8 November 2007 (UTC)

[edit] roentgen+

write something about connection between roentgen and anime 'fantastic children' in which he's very important person :). —Preceding unsigned comment added by 195.225.92.155 (talk) 09:35, August 29, 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Nothing after the Nobel?

Roentgen lived about 22 years after he got his Nobel Prize, and it did say that in 1900 he became a professor at Munich. But there is no mention of any scientific work he did after X-rays. Did he do any? Bigmac31 18:36, 8 November 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Article name

I think that the name of the article should be changed to Dr. Wilhelm Conrad Röntgen because Röntgen had a Ph.D, entitling him to be called "Doctor". 66.159.69.132 19:30, 15 November 2007 (UTC)

Most of the scientists mentioned on Wikipedia had/have doctorates, but normal practice in a biographic article is to omit "Doctor" in the title, and instead to mention in the text that the subject earned a Ph.D., usually with mention of the university and the year. The same practice is followed on www.nobelprize.org. Dirac66 20:50, 15 November 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Image

The X-ray article shows the first radiograph of Anna Bertha Ludwig's hand while the article of Wilhelm Conrad Röntgen shows the exact same picture entitled radiograph taken by Röntgen of Albert von Kölliker's hand. One radiograph was taken in November 1895 the other early 1896 but which one is shown in this image? The google search gives more blured images stating that they were taken of Anna Bertha Ludwig's hand. Can anybody help with this problem?--Stone (talk) 10:28, 29 November 2007 (UTC)

Note: This discussion is continued at Talk:X-rays#Image. Dirac66 (talk) 03:27, 30 November 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Ernst Werner von Siemens

According to letters held in the Siemens factory archives, the manufacture of Prof Roentgen's tubes was entrusted to Max Gebbert of Messrs. Reiniger, Gebbert and Schall, a company taken over by Siemens AG in 1925. I propose to remove the sentence claiming that Ernst Werner von Siemens made them, subject to other editors' views. --Old Moonraker (talk) 08:39, 13 February 2008 (UTC)

Done. --Old Moonraker (talk) 17:09, 13 February 2008 (UTC)