Monument to the X-ray and Radium Martyrs of All Nations

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The Monument to the X-ray and Radium Martyrs of All Nations (also known as the X-ray Martyrs' Memorial) is a memorial in Hamburg, Germany, commemorating those who died due to their work with the use of radiation, particularly X-rays, in medicine. It was unveiled on the grounds of St Georg (St George's) Hospital (now the Asklepios Klinik St Georg), on 4 April 1936 by the Deutsche Röntgengesellschaft (the Röntgen Society of Germany). When unveiled, the memorial included 169 names, from fifteen nations, listed alphabetically; by 1959 there were 359, with the additions listed on four separate stone plaques, beside the original columnar stone memorial.

The memorial's inscription may be translated as:

To the Roentgenologists and radiologists of all nations,

To the doctors, physicists, chemists, technicians, laboratory assistants and nurses

They were valiant pioneers in the effective

An accompanying book, Ehrenbuch der Radiologen aller Nationen ( Book of Honour of radiologists of all nations ) gives biographies of those commemorated. Three editions have been produced, the most recent in 1992.

The names of those commemorated include:

- Gyula Elischer von Thurzóbánya (1875–1929)

- Hermann Gocht [ Wikidata ] (1869–1938)

- Fedor Haenisch [ Wikidata ] (1874–1952)

- Rudolf Jedlička [ Wikidata ] (1869–1926)

- Friedrich Wilhelm Klingelfuss (1859–1932)

- Max Levy-Dorn [ Wikidata ] (1863–1929)

- José Casimiro Carteado Mena (1876–1949)

- Carl Heinrich Florenz Müller [ Wikidata ] (1845–1912)

- Blandina Ridder [ Wikidata ] (1871–1916)

- Arthur Schaarschmidt [ Wikidata ] (1879-1959)

- Auguste-Jean-Baptiste Tauleigne (–1926)

- Ivanova-Podobed Sofia Vasilievna (1887–1953)