The CT scan was co-invented by British engineer Godfrey Hounsfield and South African-born physicist Allan MacLeod Cormack.
- Nobel Prize: Hounsfield and Cormack shared the 1979 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for their breakthrough.
- First Scan: The first successful clinical brain scan of a patient occurred on October 1, 1971, at Atkinson Morley’s Hospital in London.