What did Wilhelm Conrad Roentgen discover ?

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SSC CHSL Previous Paper 121 (Held On: 19 March 2020 Shift 2)

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The correct answer is X-Rays.

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Wilhelm Conrad Röntgen was a German mechanical engineer and physicist born in 27^th March 1845.
In 1901, he awarded the first Nobel Prize for Physics for the discovery of X-Rays.
This X-ray tube became a frequently used instrument in medicine after this discovery.

Additional Information

Thomas Alva Edison invented Electric Bulb and Gramophone.
Sadi Carnot is the father of Thermodynamics.
- Thermodynamics is the branch of physics that deals with heat, work, and temperature, and their relation to energy, radiation, and physical properties of matter.
- The four laws of Thermodynamics are; Zeroth Law of Thermodynamics, First Law of Thermodynamics, Second Law of Thermodynamics and Third Law of Thermodynamics.
Conservation of Electric Charge: Charge is neither created nor destroyed, it can only be transferred from one system to another.
Unit of charge is Coulomb.