# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/godfrey-hounsfield
# Generated: 2026-08-13T19:54:04.256Z

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name: "Godfrey Hounsfield"
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description: "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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birthDate: "1919-08-28"
deathDate: "2004-08-12"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump