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1 Hounsfield, Sir Godfrey Newbold
SUBJECT AREA: Medical technology[br]b. 28 August 1919 Newark, Nottinghamshire, England[br]English scientist, inventor and developer of computer-assisted tomography (CAT) scanning technique of radiographic examination.[br]After an education in Newark and London in radiocommunications and radar, Hounsfield volunteered and served in the RAF during 1939–45. He was a lecturer at Cranwell Radar School from c.1942 to 1945. From 1947 to 1951 he undertook further study in electrical and mechanical engineering, and in 1951 he joined Electrical and Musical Instruments (EMI) Ltd, where he led the design team for the first British all-transistor computer (EMIDEC, 1959). In 1969–72 he invented and developed the EMI computerized transverse axial tomography scanner system of X-ray examination; this, while applicable to other areas of the body, particularly permitted the elimination of difficulties presented since the earliest days of X-ray examination in the examination of the cranial contents.[br]Principal Honours and DistinctionsKnighted 1981. CBE 1976. FRS 1975. Nobel Prize for Medicine or Physiology (jointly with A.M.Cormack) 1979.Bibliography1973, "Computerized transverse axial scanning (Tomography)", British Journal of Radiology, American Journal of Roentgenology.MGBiographical history of technology > Hounsfield, Sir Godfrey Newbold
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