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The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 1979

"for the development of computer assisted tomography"
Allan M. Cormack Godfrey N. Hounsfield
Allan M. Cormack Godfrey N. Hounsfield
half 1/2 of the prize half 1/2 of the prize
USA United Kingdom
Tufts University
Medford, MA, USA
Central Research Laboratories, EMI
London, United Kingdom
b. 1924
(in Johannesburg, South Africa)
d. 1998
b. 1919
d. 2004
 
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