TY - GEN A1 - Stanik, Eva A1 - Döhring, Thorsten A1 - Schreiber, Kai A1 - Kätker, Anna A1 - Busch, Uwe T1 - X-ray honour gallery - award winners of the Röntgen Medal N2 - Starting in 1951, on the 50th anniversary of the award of the first Nobel Prize for physics to Wilhelm Conrad Röntgen, the Lord Mayor of the German city of Remscheid has annually awarded Röntgen Medals to scientists who "in the broadest sense have made a special contribution to the progress and dissemination of X-ray discoveries in the theoretical and applied sciences". The Röntgen Medal has become highly recognized in the scientific world. To date, more than one hundred scientists have received this honour. Through their chronology, this contribution presents a "Who’s Who" of X-ray science and provides selected insights into their scientific work; with special focus on the fields of X-ray optics and X-ray astronomy. N2 - Poster KW - X-ray KW - X-ray discoveries KW - X-ray optics KW - X-ray astronomy KW - Röntgen Medal KW - Röntgen, Wilhelm Conrad, 1845-1923 KW - Medaille KW - Röntgenstrahlung Y1 - 2022 UR - https://opus4.kobv.de/opus4-h-ab/frontdoor/index/index/docId/2066 ER -