Roentgen equivalent man has been defined since 1976 as equal to 0.01 sievert, which is the more commonly used SI unit outside the United States. A number of earlier definitions going back to 1945 were derived from the roentgen unit, which was named after Wilhelm Röntgen, a German scientist who discovered X-rays. The acronym is now a misleading historical artifact, since 1 roentgen actually deposits about 0.96 rem in soft biological tissue, when all weighting factors equal unity. Older units of rem following other definitions are up to 17% smaller than the modern rem. One rem carries with it a 0.05% chance of
Wilhelm Stier - 1999, Professor at the Techical University of Graz, Austria Wilhelm Stier - Familytree - Family member. Wilhelm Stier Wilhelm Stier (born May 8, 1799 in Błonie near Warsaw, died September 19, 1856 in Schöneberg, full name: Friedrich Ludwig Wilhelm Stier) was a German architect and university teacher at the Berlin Bauakademie. Wilhelm Stier was born the son of Christiane Eleonora Stiers 1766 - & Friedrich Ludewik Stier 1765 - 1815 a German postmaster & taxman in the then Prussian province of South Prussia & then Wilhelms family moved to Silesia. Wilhelm Stier was Grand son to Medical Officer /