World Radiography Day is celebrated as the anniversary of the discovery of the x-radiation (x-rays) by Wilhelm Roentgen in 1895. Radiographers worldwide use the date 8th November every year as the World Radiography Day as an opportunity to promote radiography as a career. Over the years, while many inventions in the industry have taken place and played vital contribution in the modern healthcare, radiography as technology is promoted on the day as it presents an opportunity to increase public awareness of diagnostic imaging and radiation therapy.
The inventor who revolutionised the healthcare industry with the technology, Wilhelm Conrad Roentgen was the German mechanical and physicist, who, on 8 November 1895, produced and detected electromagnetic radiation in a wavelength range known as X-rays or Röntgen rays. The achievement that is the foundation of the novel technology earned the man with a Nobel Prize in Physics in 1901.
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