Wilhelm Conrad Rontgen

The Nobel Peace Prize 1901

"in recognition of the extraordinary services he has rendered by the discovery of the remarkable rays subsequently named after him"

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Wilhelm Rontgen, the very first recipient of the Nobel Prize in 1901, donated his Nobel Prize money of 50,000 crowns to the University of Wurzburg, Germany.

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Name: Wilhelm Conrad RÃ¶ntgen
Birth: 27 March 1845, Lennep (now Remscheid), Prussia (now Germany)
Death: 10 February 1923, Munich, Germany
Affiliation at the time of the award: Munich University, Munich, Germany
Prize motivation: "in recognition of the extraordinary services he has rendered by the discovery of the remarkable rays subsequently named after him"
Portion of Cash: 1/1
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