Early Life

• Wilhelm Roentgen was born March 27th 1845 in Rhenish, Prussia. 
• When he was young his parents moved to the Netherlands.
• He received his education from a boarding school in Utrecht
• He was expelled from the school and banned from similar schools around that area.
• He was accused of drawing a caricature of one of the teachers which was drawn by someone else.
• Roentgen was NOT able to attend a college in Germany or the Netherlands.
• He had to apply for one in Zurich, in which he had to pass multiple exams.