The articles gives short information about a prominent German scientist-radiologist Lotar Dithelm, the organizer of a modern roentgen-radiology department in the Kiel University, which became a base for a new profile department — one of the most authoritative in Western Germany, as well as a founder of the Clinical Institute in Mainz — a leading establishment of Germany in the field of radiology, that included a few subsections — roentgenodiagnostics, radial therapy, neuroradiology and nuclear medicine.
