People from Apeldoorn - Wilhelm Rontgen, Piet de Jong, Cornelis Hulsman, Demy de Zeeuw, Corine Dorland, Arend Lijphart, ANS Schut (Paperback)

Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 24. Chapters: Wilhelm Rontgen, Piet de Jong, Cornelis Hulsman, Demy de Zeeuw, Corine Dorland, Arend Lijphart, Ans Schut, Patrick Bakker, Willem van Zeist, Bloem de Ligny, Peter Bosz, Thom Karremans, Marc Bolland, U ur Y ld r m, Floris de Vries, Diederik Hol, Gerardus Mooyman, Edgar Burcksen, Ieke van den Burg, Remon de Vries, Emile Jansen, Hanke Bruins Slot, Jacques Wallage, Jaime Bruinier, Luuk Balkestein, Mart de Kruif, Gert-Jan Liefers, Douwe Eisenga, Edward Sturing, Dennis Sepp, Hans Melchers, Jack Rosendaal, Ben Stom, Emiel Pijnaker, Fred de Graaf, Nico de Wolf, Rihairo Meulens, Jan Hulswit, Willem de Vos, Bert Bergsma, Gerrit Holdijk, Boele Staal, Robin Linschoten, Jeroen Trommel. Excerpt: Wilhelm Conrad Rontgen (27 March 1845 - 10 February 1923) was a German physicist, who, on 8 November 1895, produced and detected electromagnetic radiation in a wavelength range today known as X-rays or Rontgen rays, an achievement that earned him the first Nobel Prize in Physics in 1901. Following transliteration conventions for characters accented by an umlaut, "Rontgen" in English is spelled "Roentgen," and that is the usual rendering found in English-language scientific and medical references. Rontgen was born in Lennep (which is today a borough of Remscheid) in Rhenish Prussia as the only child of a merchant and manufacturer of cloth. His mother was Charlotte Constanze Frowein of Amsterdam. In March 1848, the family moved to Apeldoorn and Wilhelm was raised in the Netherlands. He received his early education at the boarding school, Institute of Martinus Herman van Doorn, in Apeldoorn. From 1861 to 1863, he attended the ambachtsschool in Utrecht. He was expelled for refusing to reveal the identity of a classmate guilty of drawing an unflattering portrait of one of the school's teachers. Not only was he expelled, he subsequently found t...