This article title is rather poor: while the Beatles recorded some records for EMI, they founded a record company (Apple Records) and did much of their work under that label, so "the Beatles' record company" would in context always refer to Apple, not EMI.
The focus of the article is to make it seem random that this guy was working for a record company that distributed the Beatles and yet he invented X-Ray CT scans.
His biography on Wikipedia[1] which dovetails with the true history of EMI, at one time a builder of computers and other electronics, makes it more a matter of the inspiration from a walk in the countryside coming into the mind of a well-prepared engineer.
He won the Nobel for the invention of the CT scan. The clickbait-y part mostly concerns EMI. EMI is strange company. It started as a merger between a gramophone producer and a record company to create a vertically integrated business in the 30s. Capitalising on their expertise in sound production and broadcasting equipments they became a very important producer of radar equipments during the Second World War. And it’s this expertise in military radar technology which lead to the development of the CT scan. Meanwhile the recording part of the company merrily lived its own life and happened to produce the Beatles.
I agree, describing EMI as "the Beatles record company" is true but very misleading.
EMI was a diverse conglomerate that was involved in all kinds of stuff, from military RADAR systems to making TV cameras, computers and blank cassette tapes.
Yes, EMI had a record company division (also famous for firing The Sex Pistols), but EMI was exactly the kind of huge industrial tech company you would expect to invent a new kind of scanner.
