"The Beatles Greatest Contribution"

[da_lj]

The world's first CT scanner was designed and built from 1967-1972 by Godfrey Hounsfield, who worked for a lab at Electric and Musical Industries, otherwise known as EMI

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[sulle_stelle]

That is *fascinating*!

I certainly know about Hounsfield (and Hounsfield units), but I didn't know this aspect of the story......

[da_lj]

It isn't certainly anything I would've expected. Score one for wikipedia, for pointing me at the original sources.