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Sir Godfrey Newbold
Hounsfield, (born August 28,
1919, Newark, Nottinghamshire
, England—died August 12,
2004, Kingston upon Thames),
English electrical engineer who
shared the 1979 Nobel Prize for
Physiology or Medicine
with Allan Cormack for his part
in developing the diagnostic
technique of computerized axial
tomography (CAT), or
computerized tomography (CT).
In this technique, information
obtained from X rays taken by
scanners rotating around the
patient are combined by a
computer to yield a high-
resolution image of a slice of
the body.
Encyclopaedia Godfrey
Britannica's editors Hounsfield the co-
oversee subject areas in inventor of the CT
which they have scanner, for which
extensive knowledge, he was awarded
whether from years of the 1979 Nobel
experience gained by prize in Physiology
working on that content and Medicine, was
or via study for an born on Aug 29,
advanced degree.... 1919, in Newark,
Nottinghamshire.
DISCOVERY Two years
following the Nobel,
he was honored
with knighthood,
Godfrey Hounsfield, a
biomedical engineer becoming
Sir Godfrey
contributed enormously
Hounsfield. GODFREY
towards the diagnosis of
neurological and other Newbold
disorders by virtue of his
invention of the
HOUNSFIELD
computed axial
tomography scan for
which he was awarded
the Nobel Prize in 1979.

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Allan MacLeod Cormack,
(born Feb. 23, Around 1957 Allan
Allan MacLeod 1924, Johannesburg, S.Af.— Cormack developed the
Cormack, (born Feb. died May 7, 1998, necessary methods of
23, Winchester, Mass., U.S.), calculation. In addition to
1924, Johannesburg, South African-born cross sections of the
S.Af.—died May 7, American physicist who, body, computed
1998, Winchester, with Godfrey Hounsfield, tomography also
Mass., U.S.), South was awarded the 1979 Nobel provides a basis for ALLAN M.
African-born Prize for Physiology or three-dimensional
American physicist Medicine for his work in images.
CORMACK
who, with Godfrey developing the powerful new
Hounsfield, was diagnostic technique
awarded the of computerized axial
1979 Nobel Prize for tomography (CAT). Cormack TRIVIA
Physiology or was unusual in the field of
Medicine for his work Nobel laureates because he HE COMPUTED THE 3
in developing the never earned a doctorate DIMENTIONAL
powerful new degree in medicine or any SYSTEM
diagnostic technique other field of science.
of computerized axial
tomography (CAT).
Cormack was DISCOVERY
unusual in the field of
Nobel laureates Allan MacLeod Cormack,
because he never whose boyhood fascination
earned a doctorate with the vast canopy of stars
degree above his South African
in medicine or any home started him on a
other field of science. circuitous journey that led
him to the
accidental discovery of the
underpinning of CAT scan X-
ray technology and a share
of the 1979 Nobel Prize for
medicine, died on Thursday
at his home