Here I present: Godfrey Hounsfield, “Computed Medical Imaging”, NOBEL PRIZE LECTURE, 8 December 1979. PART TWO (II).
INTRODUCTION.
Allan Cormack & Godfrey Hounsfield, “Computed Tomography (CT)”, was the NOBEL PRIZE LECTURES, on 8 December 1978. These two men shared the Medicine/Physiology Prize, and gave lectures on computed tomography (CT).
However, Godfrey Hounsfield was more significant than Allan Cormack, because computers were about to become ubiquitous.
Computers were available only on “time-sharing” networks in 1978. Fast-forward to 1989, the “computer network” of Tim Berners-Lee & Robert Cailliau referred to as the “World Wide Web”. From 1978 with Godfrey Hounsfield, to 1989 with Tim Berners-Lee & Robert Cailliau was the era of transition for “informatics engineers” and World culture.
