The house in which Wilhelm Conrad Röntgen, the physicist and Nobel Prize laureate who discovered x-rays was born on 27 March 1.jpg845, is situated in the historic centre of Lennep, now part of the district of Remscheid-Lennep. The building is a fine example of the late 1.jpg8th century slate-clad houses with green shutters, typical of the Bergisches Land of Western Germany.
The building, now owned by the German Radiological Society, is not only a historical monument, but a museum and meeting place which immerses the visitor in Röntgen’s life, work and private persona.
It is situated a short distance from the German Röntgen Museum, which houses scientific instruments from Röntgen’s experiments and preserves the immense importance of his discovery in the fields of medical diagnostics, the natural sciences and its modern-day applications, for example in the area of security.
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