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Godfrey Hounsfield
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Godfrey Hounsfield

1919 – 2004 · aged 85

English electrical engineer (1919–2004)

Born
28 Aug 1919 · Sutton on Trent
Died
12 Aug 2004 · Kingston upon Thames

Life timeline

Their life from birth to death. On the timeline, world events of the time are shown faintly.

Showing 98 years
  1. 28 Aug 1919BornBorn in Sutton on Trent
  2. 1939 – 1945WarWorld War II
  3. 1974AwardWilhelm Exner Medal
  4. 1975AwardLasker-DeBakey Clinical Medical Research Award
  5. 1976AwardCanada Gairdner International Award
  6. 1976AwardDennis Gabor Medal and Prize
  7. 1977AwardHoward N. Potts Medal
  8. 1977AwardJohn Scott Award
  9. 1977AwardMullard Award
  10. 1979AwardNobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine
  11. 1980AwardHonorary Fellow of the Royal College of Surgeons
  12. 1980AwardX-ray badge
  13. 12 Aug 2004DiedDied in Kingston upon Thames

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Meanwhile in the world

Major world events during their lifetime (1919 – 2004).

  1. 1919 – 1920Paris Peace Conference
  2. 1920Treaty of Versailles
  3. 1933 – 1945The Holocaust
  4. 19341934 FIFA World Cup
  5. 19361936 Summer Olympics
  6. 1937 – 1945Second Sino-Japanese War
  7. 19381938 FIFA World Cup
  8. 1938Munich Agreement
  9. 1939 – 1940Winter War
  10. 1940 – 1945Auschwitz concentration camp
  11. 1941Attack on Pearl Harbor
  12. 1941 – 1945Eastern Front
  13. 1941Operation Barbarossa
  14. 1942 – 1943Battle of Stalingrad
  15. 1945Atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki
  16. 1945 – 1946Nuremberg trials
  17. 19501950 FIFA World Cup
  18. 1950 – 1953Korean War
  19. 1953 – 1959Cuban Revolution
  20. 19541954 FIFA World Cup
  21. 1955 – 1975Vietnam War
  22. 1956Hungarian Revolution of 1956
  23. 1956Suez Crisis
  24. 19581958 FIFA World Cup
  25. 1959Antarctic Treaty System
  26. 19621962 FIFA World Cup
  27. 1962Cuban Missile Crisis
  28. 19661966 FIFA World Cup
  29. 1966 – 1976Cultural Revolution
  30. 1968Prague Spring
  31. 1969Apollo 11 Moon landing
  32. 19721972 Summer Olympics
  33. 19741974 FIFA World Cup
  34. 19781978 FIFA World Cup
  35. 1978 – 1979Iranian Revolution
  36. 1979 – 1989Soviet–Afghan War
  37. 1980 – 1988Iran–Iraq War
  38. 19841984 Summer Olympics
  39. 1985Schengen Agreement
  40. 19891989 Tiananmen Square protests and massacre

Biography

Sir Godfrey Newbold Hounsfield ( HOWNZ-feeld; 28 August 1919 – 12 August 2004) was an English electrical engineer who shared the 1979 Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine with Allan MacLeod Cormack for his part in developing the diagnostic technique of X-ray computed tomography (CT).

His name is immortalised in the Hounsfield scale, a quantitative measure of radiodensity used in evaluating CT scans. The scale is defined in Hounsfield units (symbol HU), running from air at −1000 HU, through water at 0 HU, and up to dense cortical bone at +1000 HU and more.

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