Arthur Schüller: pioneer of neuroradiology.

The centennial celebration of the discovery of X rays was last year, and the first radiograms of the skull were made one hundred years ago (1). Thus, it is appropriate to remember Arthur Schüller, who was “without any shadow of doubt the father of neuroradiology” (2). His biography can be considered an example of the fate of many scientists in our century. Arthur Schüller was born in Brünn (now Brno, Czechia), in the north of Vienna, in 1874. His ancestors were merchants and industrialists, and his father was an otorhinolaryngologist. At the age of 17, Schüller came to Vienna to study medicine. It is a coincidental twist of fate that the very day that Wilhelm C. Röntgen (1845– 1923) submitted his famous preliminary communication, “About a New Kind of Rays” (3), to the Society of Physics and Medicine in Würzburg, Germany, Saturday, December 28th, 1895, Schüller celebrated his 21st birthday and attained his majority. Those new kind of rays would considerably influence his professional life. Four years later, on November 5th, 1899, he was graduated with the highest honors from Vienna University; because of his outstanding performance, he became a doctor of medicine “sub auspiciis imperatoris,” namely, a doctor under the patronage of the emperor Franz Joseph, who awarded this distinction only twice during his 68-year reign. Dr Schüller began his medical career in the