Wilhelm
Americannoun
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Wilhelm Roux, who studied under Virchow and later absorbed Charles Darwin’s influence, saw something darker: a “struggle of the parts,” with individual cells vying fiercely for resources and dominance.
From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 20, 2026
As far as I can tell, Wilhelm never proposed an invasion of Greenland; that might have struck him as thinking too small.
From Salon • Mar. 15, 2026
Wilhelm Conrad Röntgen discovered X-rays while studying electrical currents flowing through glass tubes.
From Science Daily • Mar. 14, 2026
Speaking on the earnings call, chief financial officer Harald Wilhelm said the duties introduced partway through last year had cost the company about 1 billion euros.
From Barron's • Feb. 12, 2026
In the year of his arrival in Cambridge, Wilhelm Roentgen discovered X rays at the University of Würzburg in Germany, and the next year Henri Becquerel discovered radioactivity.
From "A Short History of Nearly Everything" by Bill Bryson
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