Introduction. Chaminade University, which was founded in 1955, is a private, not-for-profit university and is the only Catholic university in Hawaii.
German scientist discovers X-rays. On this day in 1895, physicist Wilhelm Conrad Rontgen (1845-1923) becomes the first person to observe X-rays, a significant scientific advancement that would ultimately benefit a variety of fields, most of all medicine, by making the invisible visible.
Confidence votes 30.4K. Retired US Navy officer, astronomy buff, history nut. No, an X-ray is not a mechanical wave. An X-ray is an electromagnetic wave. However, in polar molecules, an X-ray can cause the molecule to vibrate rapidly, just like a microwave oven can.