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The self-taught tinker who created CT
Sir Godfrey Newbold Hounsfield was an English electrical engineer who shared the 1979 Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine with Allan McLeod Cormack, for his part in developing the diagnostic technique of X-ray computed tomography, or, CT. Hounsfield was the baby of a prominent farming family in Nottinghamshire, England, born in 1919. He was the…
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