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RRB NTPC · Question 3

X-Rays, which are now used on a day to day basis for diagnosis in medicine, was discovered by?

  1. Wilhelm Rontgen

  2. Niels Bohr

  3. Ernest Rutherford

  4. Max Bon

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Answer: (A) Wilhelm Rontgen

Explanation

X-rays were discovered by the German physicist Wilhelm Conrad Röntgen in 1895; he won the first Nobel Prize in Physics (1901) for it.