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Born in Lennep, in the Lower Rhine Province of Germany
In Lennep, in the Lower Rhine Province of Germany -
Attended University of Utrecth but was unable to study physics
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Attented University of Zurich and got Ph.D
He studied under German physicists Rudolf Clausius and August Kundt. -
Married Anna Bertha Ludwig
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At Strasbourg he was appointed a privatdozent at the University.
He had follewed Kundt to University of Stasbourg to be his assistant. -
Accepted a position as a professor of physics at the Hohenheim Agricultural Academy
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Returned to Strasbourg as an associate professor of physics
accustomed in Strasbourg, however, he returned there in 1876 as associate professor of physics. -
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Appointed professor of physics at the University of Giessen in Germany
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Adopted Anna's niece, Josephine Bertha Lugwig
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Discovered X-rays
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Made first X-ray photograph, a picture of his wife's hand
Six days earlier, he had made the world's first X-ray photograph, a picture of his wife's hand. -
Awarded the Prussian Order of the Crown, Second Class, by the Kaiser
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First Nobel Prize in physics
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Died