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Wilhelm Röntgen
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Wilhelm Röntgen
Wilhelm Conrad Röntgen
(; ; 27 March 1845 – 10 February 1923) was a German
physicist
, who, on 8 November 1895, produced and detected
electromagnetic radiation
in a
wavelength
range known as
X-rays
or Röntgen rays, an achievement that earned him the first
Nobel Prize in Physics
in 1901. In honour of his accomplishments, in 2004 the
International Union of Pure and Applied Chemistry
(IUPAC) named
element
111,
roentgenium
, a radioactive element with multiple unstable isotopes, after him.
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