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Daily Trivia

Why did Roentgen win a Nobel?

on Jun 27, 2025

In 1901, Wilhelm Conrad Roentgen won the first Nobel Prize for physics. He noticed that certain rays caused paper coated with barium platinocyanide to glow, even when the paper was in the next room. Baffled by the mystery, he called them "X rays."

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Daily Trivia / June 26, 2025

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Daily Trivia / June 24, 2025

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