Associations to the word «Roentgen»

Dictionary definition

ROENTGEN, noun. A unit of radiation exposure; the dose of ionizing radiation that will produce 1 electrostatic unit of electricity in 1 cc of dry air.
ROENTGEN, noun. German physicist who discovered x-rays and developed roentgenography (1845-1923).

Wise words

Life has no meaning unless one lives it with a will, at least to the limit of one's will. Virtue, good, evil are nothing but words, unless one takes them apart in order to build something with them; they do not win their true meaning until one knows how to apply them.
Paul Gauguin