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.
By January 1896 the world was gripped by X-ray mania, and Roentgen was proclaimed the discoverer of a medical miracle. Within a year, X-rays were being used in diagnosis and therapy and were an established part of medicine. Roentgen did not seek patents on his discovery of X rays, but was the recipient of the first Nobel Prize in physics in 1901. Today we take X-Rays and more sophisticated imaging systems all for granted.