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.
Best Answer: It is just an abbreviation. The term is xerography. The first x-ray was discovered by Wilheim Roentgen. The procedure was then called roentgenology.-ray, is actually describing the ray used, which is X or roentgen ray, named X by the man who discovered it. He called it X because it was unkown. It is a wave of photons. Check out the research -- it is interesting.