The Nobel Prize in Physics 1901
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Wilhelm Conrad Röntgen
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The Nobel Prize in Physics 1901 was awarded to Wilhelm Conrad Röntgen "in recognition of the extraordinary services he has rendered by the discovery of the remarkable rays subsequently named after him"
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