Wilhelm Conrad Rontgen10 December 1901
Receives the first Nobel Prize in Physics for discovering the radiation later called X-rays.
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Receives the first Nobel Prize in Physics for discovering the radiation later called X-rays.
Receives the Nobel Prize for laws governing thermal radiation.
Awarded the 1921 Nobel Prize in Physics for theoretical physics, especially the law of the photoelectric effect.
Is honoured for climate modelling that connected weather variability with long-term climate change.
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