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Wilhelm Rontgen was born on March 27, 1845, at Lennep in the Lower Rhine province in Germany. In 1865, he entered the University of Utrecht to study physics. In 1874, he qualified as Lecturer at Strasbourg University and in 1875, he was appointed Professor in the Academy of Agriculture at Hohenheim in Wurtemberg. His first work was published in 1870, dealing with the specific heats of gases. He also discovered the spread of oil drops in water. Rontgen's name is associated with his discovery of the X-ray. He discovered this when he was working with electrical currents through a gas of extremely low pressure. His work on cathode rays led him to the discovery of the X-ray. Rontgen discovered the X-ray when he was investigating the external effects from the various types of vacuum tube equipment. It helped create Bragg's Law because the faces of crystals appeared to reflect X-ray beams at certain angles of incidence. The waves helped determine where things were going to occur or where they were.

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