Abstract
Wilhelm Conrad Röntgen, experimental physicist, discoverer of X rays and founder of medical radiology, died 50 years ago, on February 10, 1923. It is fitting that we who follow in his footsteps should pause in our daily tasks to pay tribute to this giant among men. The outline of Röntgen's life is easily retold. He was born on March 27, 1845 in Lennep, a small town near Remscheid in North Rhine-Westphalia. Röntgen's parents moved to Holland when he was a small child and he received his schooling in Apeldoorn and Utrecht. In 1865 he enrolled as a student of mechanical engineering at the Polytechnic Institute in Zürich, where he obtained first an engineering diploma and then a doctorate.
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