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The Nobel Prize in Physics 1901

"in recognition of the extraordinary services he has rendered by the discovery of the remarkable rays subsequently named after him"
Wilhelm Conrad Röntgen
Wilhelm Conrad Röntgen
Germany
Munich University
Munich, Germany
b. 1845
d. 1923
 
 
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