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.
How X-rays work. An X-ray is a form of electromagnetic radiation that, when passed through an object, creates shadows of the structures within that object. X-rays pass through light molecular weight atoms like hydrogen, carbon, nitrogen and oxygen. These atoms make up skin, muscles and other soft tissues.