Wilhelm Conrad Rontgen
Wilhelm Conrad Rontgen
The Nobel Peace Prize 1901
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Name: Wilhelm Conrad Röntgen
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
“in recognition of the extraordinary services he has rendered by the discovery of the remarkable rays subsequently named after him”
Nobel Medal Cash and Charity
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.