Godfrey Hounsfield
✓ Source-basedrisingEnglish 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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Demis HassabisAlso won Mullard Award
Lawrence BraggAlso won X-ray badge
Francis William AstonAlso won Dennis Gabor Medal and Prize
Katalin KarikóAlso won Lasker-DeBakey Clinical Medical Research Award
Igor SikorskyAlso won Howard N. Potts Medal
Emil Theodor KocherAlso won honorary Fellow of the Royal College of SurgeonsAbout this person
Country
United KingdomCategory
Scientists
Type
Scientist
Status
deceased
Dates
Lived 1919 to 2004 · aged 84
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