Question

1. The 1879 Nobel Prize winners for Medicine, Sir
Godfrey Hounsfield and Allan Cormack, were neither
doctors nor physiologists. For what did they win the
Prize?​

Answer 1

They won the Nobel Prize for their work on X-Ray Computer Tomography (CT).

Answer 2

The 1879 Nobel Prize winners for Medicine, Sir Godfrey Hounsfield and Allan Cormack were neither doctors nor physiologists, they won the Nobel prize for:

• Sir Godfrey Hounsfield won Nobel Prize for medicine and physiology along with Allan MacLeod Cormack for developing the diagnostic technique of X-ray computed tomography (CT).
• Allan MacLeod Cormack developed computer-assisted tomography, a revolutionary radiological method, particularly for the investigation of diseases of the nervous system.
• Sir Godfrey Hounsfield was a biomedical engineer, who contributed enormously towards the diagnosis of neurological and other disorders.
• Sir Allan MacLeod Cormack was a South African American physicist who contributed his life to medicines.
• Allan Cormack developed the necessary methods of calculation for inventing the X-Ray computed device.
• In addition to cross-sections of the body, computed tomography provides a basis for three-dimensional images.

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