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 | | Today's Honorary Subscriber is the German physicist Wilhelm Conrad Roentgen (1845-1923), who became in 1901, when the Nobel Prizes were set up, the first recipient of the physics prize. |
 | | Roentgen, whose father was a textile merchant, was educated in Holland and Switzerland, studied at the Polytechnic in Zurich, and then was professor of physics at the universities of Strasbourg (1876-79), Giessen (1879-88), Wurzburg (1888-1900), and Munich (1900-20). |
 | | Roentgen made no attempt to patent any aspect of his work on X-rays or to make any financial gain from a discovery that was to prove so beneficial to science, medicine, and industry. |
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