1919-

British physicist, medical engineer, and inventor who in 1971 at Atkinson Morley's Hospital in Wimbledon built the first clinically successful computerized axial tomography (CAT), or computed tomography (CT), scanner. In 1951 he received his undergraduate degree from Faraday House Electrical Engineering College in London and became a scientist for Electrical and Musical Instruments (EMI) Ltd. He shared the Nobel Prize in medicine or physiology with Allan Cormack in 1979 and was knighted in 1981.