Monument to the X-ray and Radium Martyrs of All Nations
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| Coordinates | 53°33′33″N 10°01′11″E / 53.559082°N 10.019790°ECoordinates: 53°33′33″N 10°01′11″E / 53.559082°N 10.019790°E |
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| Location | St. George's Hospital, St. Georg, Hamburg, Germany |
| Completion date | 4 April 1936 |
| Dedicated to | Victims of radiation |
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 the grounds of St. Georg (St. George's) Hospital (now the Asklepios Klinik St. Georg), on 4 April 1936 by the Deutsch 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 Rontgenologists and radiologists of all nations,
To the doctors, physicists, chemists, technicians, laboratory assistants and nurses
who sacrificed their lives in the fight against disease.
They were valiant pioneers in the effective
and safe use of X-rays and radium in medicine.
Immortal is the glory of the work of the dead.
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:
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