Talk:Wilhelm Röntgen

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Any relation to the cabinetmakers?

There is nothing here about Röntgen's parentage or early life. Was he any relation to Abraham and David Roentgen, the cabinetmakers? Kostaki mou (talk) 15:28, 28 January 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Nationality

If Mr Roentgen was born to a German father and a Dutch mother and lived in the Netherlands why is he not presented as a Dutch-German scientist? I really don't see why archaic nationality laws should play a role in how a contemporary encyclopedia defines the nationality of a person. Also, there is a difference between nationality and citizenship. It puzzles me why we decide to erase the national legacy of the female parent. 71.93.115.97 (talk) 03:50, 2 September 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Compare 'Wilhelm Röntgen "German physicist"' to 'Wilhelm Röntgen "Dutch-German physicist"'. Other nationalities are not mentioned in the lead unless they are relevant to the subject's notability. Hrodvarsson (talk) 23:17, 2 September 2018 (UTC)[reply]

His wife

they married in 72 she did not die then but in 1919, the source is even correct the citation is wrong. 2003:F2:772A:5E44:B19F:4B12:8049:B8E6 (talk) 13:30, 10 February 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Discovery of x-ray 2409:408C:8DCF:62BD:0:0:EC48:D611 (talk) 03:06, 17 June 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Inheritance currency

The article states that "He inherited two million Reichsmarks after his father's death." According to https://www.ancestry.ca/genealogy/records/friedrich-conrad-r%C3%B6ntgen-24-83b6v4 his father died in 1884. According to https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reichsmark, the Reichsmark did not exist until 1924, which is also after the death of Wilhelm Röntgen. According to https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/German_mark_(1871), the currency in Germany in 1884 was the Goldmark. Kaiateic (talk) 03:45, 3 August 2024 (UTC)[reply]

I deleted the sentence. I found no mention in

Busch, U. (2021). Wilhelm Conrad Röntgen: Researcher and Man. In: Busch, U. (eds) Wilhelm Conrad Röntgen. Classic Texts in the Sciences. Birkhäuser, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-72243-2_3

It's puzzling that this detailed bio is not cited. Johnjbarton (talk) 15:55, 3 August 2024 (UTC)[reply]