The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 1979
Awarded on: 1979-10-11
"for the development of computer assisted tomography"
Affiliations:
- Central Research Laboratories, EMI – London, United Kingdom
Godfrey N. Hounsfield
Born: 1919-08-28 in Newark, United Kingdom
Gender: male
Field: British electrical engineer (1919–2004)
Biography
Sir Godfrey Newbold Hounsfield was an English 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).