biography
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Röntgen, Wilhelm Konrad von
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also spelled Roentgen
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pronunciation:
[roentguhn]
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| lived:
| (1845–1923)
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| biography:
| Physicist, born in Lennep, W Germany. He studied at Zürich, and became professor of physics at Strasbourg (1876–9), Giessen (1879–88), Würzburg (1888–1900), and Munich (1900–20). In 1895 he discovered the electromagnetic rays which he called X-rays, for which he received the first Nobel Prize for Physics in 1901. |
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