1. Wilhelm Rentgen
Under letter “X”

2. Hypothesis: “This is 10 percent luck, 20 percent skill, 15 percent concentrated power of will, 5 percent pleasure, 50 percent pain – and a 100 percent reason to remember the name” (Fort Minor, “Remember The Name”)

3. Can the new thing be discovered casually? Can a scientist be creative?
Focus questions:
Can the new thing be discovered casually?
Can a scientist be creative?
Is it real to stay yourself when you are famous?

4. Achievements of Wilhelm Conrad Rentgen: Rumford Medal (1896) ; Matteucci Medal (1896) ; Nobel Prize for Physics (1901) ; In November 2004 element number 111 was named roentgenium (Rg) in his honour.

5. Biography
Wilhelm Rentgen was borned on 27 March Discovered electromagnetic radiation called X-rays. Professor of physics in the universities of Strasburg, Hohenheim, Giessen, Wurzburg and Munich. He died on 10 February 1923 from carcinoma.

6. X-rays in our life X-rays used in: medicine; toll;
astronautics (some space
stations work with this type of
radiation);

7. Rentgen had a habit to stay at lab for a long time
Rentgen had a habit to stay at lab for a long time. Once he remembered that he left vacuum tube energized. He turned it off, but the radiation didn’t disappear. A physicist understood that that radiation is unknown to people. (This is 10 percent luck…) He was a professor of physics in the universities of Strasburg, Hohenheim, Giessen, Wurzburg and Munich. (…20 percent skill…) While he studied qualities of X-rays he didn’t leave his lab for some days (…15 percent concentrated power of will)

8. In spite of the fact that he could retire, Rentgen continued his work until his death. (…5 percent pleasure…) When the government of Germany asked people to help them with money, Rentgen gave them all his money, including the Nobel Prize. (…50 percent pain…) And, finally, in 1901, Wilhelm Rentgen became a winner of Nobel Prize. (…and a 100 percent reason to remember the name.)

9. “Medicine’s 10 greatest discoveries”; “Something about X-rays for everybody”; “The electromagnetic spectrum”; “Wilhelm Conrad Rentgen and the Early History of the Roentgen Rays”; And web-site WIKIPEDIA which united all this information.