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Breaking boundaries: how physicists won the Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine

29 Sep 2022 Tami Freeman

With the 2022 Nobel prizes due to be announced, Physics World editors look at the physicists who’ve won prizes in fields other than their own. Here, Tami Freeman examines two medical imaging breakthroughs that led to physicists winning the Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine.

Early breakthrough: Allan Cormack with his original computer axial tomography (CAT) scanner. (Courte

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