Word: cat
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Cat Trick...
...Plato had known sophomore Cat Ferrante before he wrote "The Dialogues," he would have changed the resolution of his chapter on the significance of names...
They share a Nobel Prize for pioneering the CAT scanner...
...Cormack, 55, of Tufts University, and Research Engineer Godfrey Hounsfield, 60, of the British firm EMI Ltd., brooded over the same mathematical puzzle and independently reached the same solution. The puzzle: how to produce an X-ray image of tissue at any depth within a patient. The result: the CAT (for computerized axial tomography) scanner, a medical marvel now used in hospitals round the world. Last week the two scientists learned that they have something else in common: they will share the 1979 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine and its accompanying cash award...
...overturned after a lengthy debate. Though no rejected names were divulged, the schism was apparently an ideological one: some institute members insisted that winners be confined to scientists engaged in basic research, while others felt that achievements in medical technology should also be considered. The choice of the CAT-scanner pioneers seemed a perfect compromise. Their work with abstract physics and mathematics resulted in a lifesaving machine...