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Article: Dreams can be useful but not as Freud thought
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- The Sunday Telegraph London
- Article date:
- September 19, 2004
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Whenever I flick through a newspaper while on holiday in France, I
seem to discover that another of my scientific heroes has passed
away. Last time it was the death of the cosmologist, physicist and
scientific mischief-maker Sir Fred Hoyle, who worked out the origin
of the chemical elements, revealing that we are all made from star
dust. This summer I found myself reading the obituary of Sir Godfrey
Hounsfield, the self-taught British engineer who invented the medical
scanner.
By showing how to combine individual X-rays into detailed 3-D
images, Hounsfield did more than merely give doctors better images of