Template:Are You Sure/March 27

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• ... that engineer and physicist Wilhelm Röntgen was awarded the first Nobel Prize in Physics, for his discovery of X-rays?

• ... that engraver, goldsmith, and publisher Theodor de Bry gained fame for his depictions of early European overseas expeditions; and that, although de Bry never visited the Americas, most of his books are based on first-hand observations by explorers?

• ... that chemist and physicist James Dewar invented the vacuum flask, which he used in his pioneering research into the liquefaction of gases?