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belka [17]
2 years ago
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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?
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History
1 answer:
KATRIN_1 [288]2 years ago
3 0

Answer:

for the development of computer assisted tomography.

Explanation:

The 1979 Nobel Prize winners for Medicine, Sir Godfrey Hounsfield and Allan Cormack won the prize "for the development of computer-assisted tomography."

This is evident in the fact that Sir Godfrey Hounsfield was an English Electrical Engineer, while Allan Cormack was widely known as a South African American physicist.

They both come together to "develop computer-assisted tomography" which is used to provide detailed information about the structure and anatomy of human organs.

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