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Wilhelm Roentgen

Wilhelm Roentgen
German physicist Wilhelm Roentgen won the 1901 Nobel Prize in physics. Roentgen, who was the first Nobel laureate in physics, won the award for his discovery of a type of short-wave radiation popularly known as X rays.
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Science; Roentgen, Wilhelm Conrad; X Ray; X-Ray Astronomy
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