"Wilhelm Röntgen: The Accidental Discovery That Revolutionized Medicine" Early Life and Education Wilhelm Conrad Röntgen was born on March 27, 1845, in Lennep, a small town in the Rhine Province of Prussia (now part of Remscheid, Germany). He was the only child of Friedrich Conrad Röntgen, a cloth merchant, and Charlotte Constanze Frowein, who came from a wealthy Dutch family. When Wilhelm was three years old, the family moved to Apeldoorn, Netherlands, where he attended the Institute of Martinus Herman van Doorn. Despite showing promise in technical subjects, Röntgen had…