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Wilhelm Conrad Röntgen Wilhelm Röntgen

Date

27th Mar 1845
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180 Years ago

Wilhelm Röntgen

Wilhelm Röntgen (Wilhelm Conrad Röntgen) a German physicist.

Father of diagnostic radiology.

First-ever recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physics.

He discovered X-rays.

He took the first X-ray image of his wife’s hand.

He donated his Nobel Prize money to to the University of Würzburg to support research.
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