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Health care tips  List of nobel prize winners 1979 nobel prize winner
The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 1979
For the development of computer assisted tomography
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| Name - Allan M. Cormack |
| Date of birth - February 23, 1924 |
| Institutions - Tufts University Medford, MA, USA
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| Country - USA |
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Description - Allan MacLeod Cormack was a South African-born American physicist who won the 1979 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for his work on x-ray computed tomography (CT).
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| Name - Godfrey N. Hounsfield |
| Date of birth - 28 August 1919 |
| Institutions - Central Research Laboratories, EMI London, United Kingdom
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| Country - United Kingdom |
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Description - Sir Godfrey Newbold Hounsfield CBE, FRS, 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 (CT).
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