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Godfrey Hounsfield

1919 - 2004

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Sir Godfrey Newbold Hounsfield ( HOWNZ-feeld; 28 August 1919 – 12 August 2004) was a British 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. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Godfrey Hounsfield is the 53rd most popular engineer (down from 50th in 2019), the 1,019th most popular biography from United Kingdom (down from 831st in 2019) and the 4th most popular British Engineer.

Godfrey Hounsfield is most famous for inventing the CT scanner in the 1970s.

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Among ENGINEERS

Among engineers, Godfrey Hounsfield ranks 53 out of 389. Before him are Felix Wankel, Pavel Sukhoi, Viktor Bryukhanov, Bjarne Stroustrup, Marcello Gandini, and Ernst Heinkel. After him are Frank Bunker Gilbreth Sr., William Armstrong, 1st Baron Armstrong, John Ambrose Fleming, Kurt Gerstein, Valentin Glushko, and Su Song.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1919, Godfrey Hounsfield ranks 48. Before him are César Manrique, Mordechai Anielewicz, Martin Balsam, Boris Shcherbina, Lex Barker, and Jackie Robinson. After him are Mohamed Boudiaf, René Barrientos, Elisabeth Volkenrath, James Lovelock, Georges Duby, and Osvaldo Dorticós Torrado. Among people deceased in 2004, Godfrey Hounsfield ranks 42. Before him are Edward B. Lewis, Jerry Goldsmith, John Vane, Ingrid Thulin, John Pople, and Thomas Klestil. After him are Masanori Tokita, Takeshi Kamo, Marvin Heemeyer, Matthäus Hetzenauer, Nicolai Ghiaurov, and Saizo Saito.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, Godfrey Hounsfield ranks 1,019 out of 8,785. Before him are David I of Scotland (1084), Edmund Tudor, 1st Earl of Richmond (1430), Oliver Sacks (1933), Ian McDiarmid (1944), Arthur Cecil Pigou (1877), and James Gregory (1638). After him are John of Salisbury (1110), Freeman Dyson (1923), Lewis Fry Richardson (1881), Danny Boyle (1956), Len Deighton (1929), and Charles Lightoller (1874).

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Among ENGINEERS In United Kingdom

Among engineers born in United Kingdom, Godfrey Hounsfield ranks 4. Before him are William John Macquorn Rankine (1820), Isambard Kingdom Brunel (1806), and Hertha Ayrton (1854). After him are William Armstrong, 1st Baron Armstrong (1810), John Ambrose Fleming (1849), Colin Chapman (1928), Charles George Gordon (1833), Adrian Newey (1958), Henry Royce (1863), Charles Rolls (1877), and Patrick Head (1946).

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