Personalities and their contribution to the development of radiation oncology.

Radiotherapy is an integral part of multidisciplinary clinical oncology as one of the basic treatment modalities. Historical evolution of radiation oncology from X-ray discovery, through the discovery of radioactivity by Maria Curie-Sklodowska and her husband Pierre Curie and other worldwide scientists do not appear without the overview of eminent personalities of Czech and Slovak radiotherapy, who have deserved to develop this medical field from its beginnings to the present time.