Talk:Wilhelm Röntgen

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)

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)

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)

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)

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)

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)