[ noun ] German physicist who discovered x-rays and developed roentgenography (1845-1923) <noun.person>
Rontgen \R["o]nt"gen\, Roentgen \Roent"gen\, a. Of or pertaining to the German physicist Wilhelm Konrad R["o]ntgen, or the rays discovered by him; as, R["o]ntgen apparatus. [Webster 1913 Suppl.]
In November 1897, the company that is now Siemens' medical engineering group received a letter from Professor Wilhelm Rontgen, discoverer of X-rays.