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1845–1923
Wilhelm Röntgen
Discovered X-rays in 1895, and won the first Nobel Prize in Physics in 1901.
Element
111RgRoentgenium
1994
In 1994, a month after element 110, the GSI team in Darmstadt made a few atoms of element 111 from nickel and bismuth. It was named roentgenium, after Wilhelm Röntgen, discoverer of X-rays.
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- Wilhelm RöntgenEncyclopaedia Britannica
- RoentgeniumRoyal Society of Chemistry
- Wilhelm RöntgenWikipedia