MacLeod Cormack and Godfrey Newbold Hounsfield, the authors of this groundbreaking
invention, and to placing their achievements on a timeline, from Cormack's theoretical idea
in the late 1950s to Hounsfield's development of a practical device in the late 1960s.
However, perhaps we should broaden our horizons and look back through the centuries to
obtain a more complete view of the development of human thought and aspirations, which …