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Biographical Name
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"Wilhelm C Roentgen (1845-1923) was a German physicist who is celebrated globally for his discovery of x-rays on 8 November 1895."

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List Punctuation
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"Deutsche Roentgen-Museum in Remscheid (a city in the state of North Rhine-Westphalia in Germany) houses items related to Roentgen and his life. The house where Roentgen was born is nearby and can be visited."

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"Roentgen Memorial Site in Würzburg, includes the laboratory where Roentgen made his epoch-making discovery and an exhibition."

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Accepted Abbreviations
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"Roentgen was awarded the inaugural Nobel Prize for Physics in 1901, the citation read "The Academy has awarded Professor Röntgen of Munich the Nobel Prize for Physics on the grounds of discovery, the name of which will always be linked with him as Röntgen rays or as he calls them himself X-rays. From the properties associated with Röntgen rays, only those are considered that contribute to the far reaching applications these rays have found in medical practice" 2."

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Acronyms
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"roentgen rays, a synonym for x-rays, e.g. ARRS"

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List Caps
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"International Day of Radiology is celebrated annually on the anniversary of the discovery of x-rays, i.e. 8 November"

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Headings Valid
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Expected headings

  • H1 Early life
  • H1 Later life
  • H2 Accolades
  • H1 Legacy
  • H1 See also

"Discovery of x-rays"

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Semicolons
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"Arguably the most famous x-ray ever taken, that of the hand of his wife Bertha, was dated 27 December 1895. This was not the first x-ray ever taken as is erroneously believed by most. The next day, he delivered a paper titled “On a New Kind of Rays” to the Würzburg Physical-Medical Society 1. Only the first page of his original manuscript is extant; the other pages were destroyed after his death as he stipulated in his will 2."

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