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 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).