Laureates
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The Nobel Prize in Physics
1901
Wilhelm Conrad
Röntgen
1845 - 1923
Germany
Munich University, Munich, Germany
"in recognition of the
extraordinary services he has rendered by the discovery of the remarkable rays
subsequently named after him"
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On November 8, 1895 Wilhelm Röntgen first observed that an unindentified radiation from
an evacuated glass bulb through which he was passing high-voltage electric current caused
a glow in a little barium platinocyanide screen lying on the bench. In the weeks to
follow, Röntgen determined most of the characteristics of these x-rays and methodically
set them down in a paper "On a New Kind of Rays, a Preliminary
Communication". It was published in January of 1896 in the Sitzungsberichte.
He did not patent his apparatus nor
seek finacial gain from his discovery.
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