The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 1979
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Allan M. Cormack
Prize share: 1/2
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Godfrey N. Hounsfield
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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