biography
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Hounsfield, Sir Godfrey (Newbold)
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| sex:
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| lived:
| (1919– )
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| biography:
| Physicist, born in Newark, Nottinghamshire, C England, UK. He studied in London, and joined Electrical and Musical Industries (EMI) in 1951. Independently of Allan Cormack, he developed the method of X-ray computer-assisted tomography (CAT), the first body scanners being made by EMI in the early 1970s. He continued to work on new medical imaging methods, and shared the Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine in 1979. He was knighted in 1981. |
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