When my paternal grandfather was a teenager in the late 19th Century, he was a delivery boy for a lens factory. One of his regular stops was the laboratory of physicist Wilhelm Röntgen, who was using glass from my grandfather’s employer in inventing what we know today as the X-ray machine.

At the time, Röntgen’s discovery of X-rays seemed like a big deal and a boon to humanity. Thus, when the Nobel Prizes started up in 1901, Röntgen was chosen, out of all the living physicists in the world, to receive the first Nobel in physics.

But now we know better. Röntgen was really just using his White Male Privilege to make non-whites and non-males feel bad.

Thus, from the Tory Telegraph of London: