About
Sir Godfrey Newbold Hounsfield was a British electrical engineer who shared the 1979 Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine with Allan MacLeod Cormack for his part in developing the diagnostic technique of X-ray computed tomography (CT).
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Milestones, by age
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- ~60Received the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine1979
Sources
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- Godfrey Hounsfield (Q273769) · Wikidata
- Godfrey Hounsfield · Wikipedia
Also born on August 18
Notable birthday twins
- Robert Redford · 1936–2025 · Actor
- Roman Polanski · 1933 · Actor
- Patrick Swayze · 1952–2009 · Actor
- Edward Norton · 1969 · Actor
- Madeleine Stowe · 1958 · Actor
- Andy Samberg · 1978 · Actor