The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 1979

Allan M. Cormack

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Prize share: 1/2

Godfrey N. Hounsfield

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Prize share: 1/2

The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 1979 was awarded jointly to Allan M. Cormack and Godfrey N. Hounsfield "for the development of computer assisted tomography."

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