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    Sir Godfrey Newbold Hounsfield CBE FRS HonFREng (/ˈhaʊnzfiːld/ HOWNZ-feeld; 28 August 1919 – 12 August 2004) was a British electrical engineer who shared...
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  • The Hounsfield scale (/ˈhaʊnzfiːld/ HOWNZ-feeld), named after Sir Godfrey Hounsfield, is a quantitative scale for describing radiodensity. It is frequently...
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    adapted by Godfrey Hounsfield as the image reconstruction mechanism in his first commercial CT scanner.[citation needed] In 1956, Ronald N. Bracewell...
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    who won the 1979 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (along with Godfrey Hounsfield) for his work on X-ray computed tomography (CT), a significant and...
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  • 1973 Paul M. Zoll, William B. Kouwenhoven 1974 John Charnley 1975 Godfrey N. Hounsfield, William Oldendorf 1976 Raymond P. Ahlquist, James W. Black 1977...
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  • Kwolek (Engineering) 1976 - Paul W. Morgan (Engineering) 1977 - Godfrey N. Hounsfield (Life Science) 1978 - Michael Szwarc (Chemistry) 1979 - Seymour...
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    States "for the development of computer assisted tomography" Sir Godfrey N. Hounsfield (1919–2004)  United Kingdom 1980 Baruj Benacerraf (1920–2011)  Venezuela...
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  • Huxley, John D. Keith [de], William Thornton Mustard 1976 Sir Godfrey N. Hounsfield, Thomas R. Dawber [de], William B. Kannel, Eugene P. Kennedy, George...
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  • Chemistry – Herbert C. Brown, Georg Wittig Medicine – Allan M. Cormack, Godfrey N. Hounsfield Turing Award – Kenneth E. Iverson June 29 – Artur Avila, Brazilian-born...
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    African-American physicist Allan MacLeod Cormack and British electrical engineer Godfrey Hounsfield "for the development of computer-assisted tomography". On the basis...
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