The Nobel Prize in Physics 1901
Awarded on: 1901-11-12
"in recognition of the extraordinary services he has rendered by the discovery of the remarkable rays subsequently named after him"
Affiliations:
- Munich University – Munich, Germany
Wilhelm Conrad Röntgen
Born: 1845-03-27 in Lennep, Prussia (now Remscheid, Germany)
Gender: male
Field: German physicist (1845–1923)
Biography
Wilhelm Conrad Röntgen was a German physicist who produced and detected electromagnetic radiation in a wavelength range known as X-rays. As a result of this discovery, he became the first recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1901.