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Who was the FIRST nobel laureate?
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Wilhelm Rontgen
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Wilhelm Röntgen (Germany) was awarded the first Nobel Prize in Physics in 1901 for his discovery of X-rays. Ronald Ross (Medicine, 1902), Lord Rayleigh (Physics, 1904), and Rudyard Kipling (Literature, 1907) all won Nobel Prizes but not the first ones.