The Röntgen Monument in Lennep, Wilhelm Conrad Rõntgen’s birthplace, honours the physicist who discovered X-rays.
The monument displays an allegorical bronze statue carrying a torch and mounted on a stone pedestal which bears Röntgen’s name and portrait in bas-relief. This act of illumination symbolises the revelation of the invisible – a metaphor for Röntgen’s 1895 discovery of a type of radiation which could penetrate the human body.
The monument was created in 1932 by sculptor Ernst Müller-Blensdorf and is located near Röntgen’s birthplace, now home to the Röntgen Museum.
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