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Wilhelm Röntgen

1845 - 1923

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Wilhelm Conrad Röntgen (German: [ˈvɪlhɛlm ˈʁœntɡən] ; 27 March 1845 – 10 February 1923), sometimes transliterated as Roentgen ( RENT-guhn or RUHNT-juhn), 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. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Wilhelm Röntgen is the 6th most popular physicist (down from 4th in 2019), the 26th most popular biography from Germany (down from 21st in 2019) and the 2nd most popular German Physicist.

Wilhelm Röntgen was a German physicist who is most famous for discovering X-rays.

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Among PHYSICISTS

Among physicists, Wilhelm Röntgen ranks 6 out of 851. Before him are Isaac Newton, Albert Einstein, Marie Curie, J. Robert Oppenheimer, and Stephen Hawking. After him are Michael Faraday, Niels Bohr, Hans Christian Ørsted, Max Planck, Alessandro Volta, and Albert A. Michelson.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1845, Wilhelm Röntgen ranks 1. After him are Alexander III of Russia, Ludwig II of Bavaria, Gabriel Lippmann, Georg Cantor, Gabriel Fauré, George I of Greece, Élie Metchnikoff, Charles Louis Alphonse Laveran, Amadeo I of Spain, Ludwig III of Bavaria, and Carl Spitteler. Among people deceased in 1923, Wilhelm Röntgen ranks 1. After him are Gustave Eiffel, Sarah Bernhardt, Vilfredo Pareto, Johannes Diderik van der Waals, Princess Helena of the United Kingdom, Jaroslav Hašek, Constantine I of Greece, John Venn, Warren G. Harding, Pancho Villa, and Ernest Augustus, Crown Prince of Hanover.

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In Germany

Among people born in Germany, Wilhelm Röntgen ranks 26 out of 7,253. Before him are Peter Paul Rubens (1577), Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel (1770), Richard Wagner (1813), Karl Benz (1844), Henry Kissinger (1923), and Max Weber (1864). After him are Frederick the Great (1712), Johannes Brahms (1833), Friedrich Engels (1820), Angela Merkel (1954), Max Planck (1858), and Bernhard Riemann (1826).

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Among PHYSICISTS In Germany

Among physicists born in Germany, Wilhelm Röntgen ranks 2. Before him are Albert Einstein (1879). After him are Max Planck (1858), Werner Heisenberg (1901), Georg Ohm (1789), Heinrich Hertz (1857), Max Born (1882), Max von Laue (1879), Hermann von Helmholtz (1821), Johannes Stark (1874), Gustav Ludwig Hertz (1887), and Georg Bednorz (1950).

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