Physicist
Wilhelm Conrad Röntgen
University of Würzburg
German physicist who discovered X-rays on 8 November 1895 and published 'On a new kind of rays' on 28 December 1895. He worked at the University of Würzburg, where Theodor Boveri was a friend and colleague according to a review.
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