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Godfrey Hounsfield

1919 – August 12, 2004

British electrical engineer (1919–2004)

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Sir Godfrey Newbold Hounsfield was a British electrical engineer who shared the 1979 Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine with Allan MacLeod Cormack for his part in developing the diagnostic technique of X-ray computed tomography (CT).

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  • Anniversary · August 12

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