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.
Where does the X in X-ray come from? Here's a piece of high-energy astrophysics trivia (you never know when you might need to know these things). Where does the X in X-ray come from? The answer is that a German physicist, Wilhelm Roentgen, discovered a new form of radiation in 1895. He called it X-radiation because he didnÃ¢â¬â¢t know what it was. Yes, itÃ¢â¬â¢s as simple as that.