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Wilhelm Conrad Rontgen
(
27 Mairch
1845
?
10 Februar
1923
) wis a
German
pheesicist, who, on 8 November 1895, producit an detectit
electromagnetic radiation
in a
wavelenth
range the day that wis kent as
X-rays
or Rontgen rays, a achievement that earned him the first
Nobel Prize in Pheesics
in 1901.
[1]
In honour o his accomplishments, in 2004 the
Internaitional Union o Pur and Applee'd Chemistry
(IUPAC) namit
element
111,
roentgenium
, a radioactive element wi multiple unstable isotopes, efter him.
