World or International Day of Radiology

Radiologic Technologist Day is celebrated worldwide on November 8th. The date commemorates the discovery of X-rays by German physicist Wilhelm Conrad Röntgen in 1895.

This special day is also known as World or International Radiology and Radiologic Technologist Day, and it pays tribute to the contribution of these professionals to public health.

The scientist was working in his laboratory with cathode rays, directing them to pass through two vacuum-sealed glass bulbs, when he was surprised to notice what he recorded as a visible rarefaction when a stream of rays became a fluorescence effect that managed to pass through any opaque body placed in front of it and subsequently impact a photographic film placed behind it.

This remarkable German physicist had unknowingly discovered how to produce electromagnetic radiation at wavelengths corresponding to what would later be called X-rays, work that earned him the first Nobel Prize in Physics in history later in 1901.

Three months passed after that November 8, 1895, before the world's first X-ray was taken, and then science and medicine would continue to advance in order to improve the diagnosis of different pathologies, with so many good and important progress for the health of humanity.

Cheers and happy day to the radiology technicians of our UM!