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.
X-rays Wilhelm Conrad RÃ¶ntgen, Professor of Physics in Wurzburg, Bavaria, accidentally discovered X-rays in November 1895 while studying cathode rays in a low pressure gas discharge tube. Alone in his laboratory on a Friday evening, he placed his hand in the path of the invisible rays which he was investigating, and saw an image of the bones on the screen beyond.