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Wilhelm Röntgen, German physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (born 1845)
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German physicist (1845–1923)
Wilhelm Conrad Röntgen, sometimes transliterated as Roentgen, was a German physicist who produced and detected electromagnetic radiation in a wavelength range known as X-rays. As a result of this discovery, he became the first recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1901.Source: Wikipedia (CC BY-SA)
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One of five prizes established in 1895 by Alfred Nobel
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