# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/wilhelm-rontgen
# Generated: 2026-09-02T06:01:26.793Z

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name: "Wilhelm Röntgen"
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description: "He found a new kind of light that could see through flesh to bone — and refused to patent it, believing the world should have it free."
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Wilhelm Conrad Röntgen was a German experimental physicist working in the dim hours of November 1895 when he noticed a strange glow from a covered screen across his lab. He'd stumbled on electromagnetic radiation in a wavelength no one had isolated before: X-rays, capable of passing through soft tissue and exposing the skeleton beneath. The discovery tore through medicine and science. In 1901 he became the first person ever to receive the Nobel Prize in Physics, cited for "the extraordinary services he has rendered by the discovery of the remarkable rays subsequently named after him." He died in 1923, his name lodged in periodic tables and radiology departments, the element roentgenium carrying it forward.