Editing Wilhelm Röntgen (section)

==Awards and honors==
*1896: [[Rumford Medal]] of the [[Royal Society]]
*1896: [[Matteucci Medal]] of the [[Accademia nazionale delle scienze]]
*1897: [[Elliott Cresson Medal]] of the [[Franklin Institute]]
*1900: [[Barnard Medal for Meritorious Service to Science]] of [[Columbia University]]
*1901: [[Nobel Prize in Physics]] for the discovery of [[X-ray]]s

In 1901, Röntgen was awarded the first [[Nobel Prize in Physics]]. The award was officially "in recognition of the extraordinary services he has rendered by the discovery of the remarkable rays subsequently named after him".<ref>See https://www.nobelprize.org/prizes/physics/1901/rontgen/facts/  and Jost Lemmerich: Röntgen Rays Centennial 1895–1995, Würzburg 1995, {{ISBN|3-923959-28-1}}.</ref> Shy in public speaking, he declined to give a Nobel lecture.<ref name=PaisInward/>{{rp|39}} Röntgen donated the 50,000 Swedish krona reward from his Nobel Prize to research at his university, the [[University of Würzburg]]. Like [[Marie Curie|Marie]] and [[Pierre Curie]], Röntgen refused to take out patents related to his discovery of X-rays, as he wanted society as a whole to benefit from practical applications of the phenomenon. Röntgen was also awarded [[Barnard Medal for Meritorious Service to Science]] in 1900.<ref>{{cite news |date=23 May 1900 |title=Award of Bernard Medal |url=http://spectatorarchive.library.columbia.edu/cgi-bin/columbia?a=d&d=cs19000523-01.2.13 |work=[[Columbia Daily Spectator]] |location=New York City |volume=XLIII |number=57 |access-date=22 March 2018}}</ref>

In November 2004, [[IUPAC]] named element number 111 [[roentgenium]] (Rg) in his honor. [[IUPAP]] adopted the name in November 2011.

He was elected an International Member of the [[American Philosophical Society]] in 1897.<ref>{{Cite web |title=APS Member History |url=https://search.amphilsoc.org/memhist/search?creator=Wilhelm+C.+von+Roentgen&title=&subject=&subdiv=&mem=&year=&year-max=&dead=&keyword=&smode=advanced |access-date=22 February 2024 |website=search.amphilsoc.org}}</ref> In 1907, he became a foreign member of the [[Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences]].<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.dwc.knaw.nl/biografie/pmknaw/?pagetype=authorDetail&aId=PE00002640 |title=W.C. Röntgen (1845–1923) |publisher=Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences |access-date=20 July 2015}}</ref>