What type of engineer was Wilhelm Röntgen?
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Wilhelm Röntgen was a German mechanical engineer and physicist who is credited as the discoverer of X-rays in 1895. He was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1901 for his work on the discovery of X-rays. Röntgen's early research was in optics and spectroscopy, and he developed the first cathode ray tube in 1897.
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