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.
CT scan and MRI introduced. 1972 - 1985. The use of x-rays in medicine was a huge breakthrough at the turn of the century. The problem with x-rays, though, is that they're two-dimensional. Organs of the same density look the same. But British engineer Godfrey Hounsfield came up with an improvement on the 70-year-old technology. It combined x-ray images with a computer. If you took many x-rays of the same area, at slightly different angles, a computer could put the information from the x-rays together to create a cross-sectional image.