Template:Are You Sure/March 27

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

• ... that engraver, goldsmith, and publisher Theodor de Bry dies gained fame for his depictions of early European 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 conjunction with extensive research into the liquefaction of gases?