Wilhelm Röntgen was born today in 1845. He was a German physicist who on November 8th, 1895 produced and detected electromagnetic radiation in a wavelength range today known as x-rays. For this he won the first Nobel Prize for Physics in 1901. He named the new rays "x" to indicate they were unknown. His very first "medical" x-ray was of his wifes hand. Some of his colleagues (against his wishes) tried to rename the rays "Röntgen Rays".
Röntgen was professor of physics at the universities of Strasbourg, Giessen, Würzburg and Munich.
When Röntgen died in 1923 he was nearly bankrupt and his personal and scientific correspondence was destroyed upon his death.
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