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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 [12] [13] and more.
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The first commercially viable CT scanner was invented by Sir Godfrey Hounsfield in Hayes, United Kingdom, at EMI Central Research Laboratories using X-rays. Hounsfield conceived his idea in 1967. [14] The first EMI-Scanner was installed in Atkinson Morley Hospital in Wimbledon, England, and the first patient brain-scan was done on 1 October ...
When Peter the Great conquered the Baltic coast, Sir Jacob Wolff's father, Godfrey (Carl Gottfried) Wolff (1704–1788), was deported together with his family to Vologda and later came to live in Moscau, where Sir Jacob Wolff was born on the 27 January 1739.
1967 onwards: Computed Tomography and first commercial CT scanner invented by Sir Godfrey Hounsfield (1919–2004) in Hayes, Middlesex, at EMI Central Research Laboratories. 1969–1978: Development of in vitro fertilisation (IVF) by Patrick Christopher Steptoe (1913–1988) and Robert Geoffrey Edwards (1925–2013). [97]
Sir William Beechey (1753–1839) John Shackleton (1714–1767) – Principal Painter in Ordinary to George II and George III; Richard Wilson (1714–1782) William Keable (1714–1774) Charles Brooking (1723–1759) Sir Joshua Reynolds (1723–1792) – Principal Painter in Ordinary to the King; George Stubbs (1724–1806) Thomas Gainsborough ...
Name Life Husband(s) Year Image Isabella FitzRoy, Duchess of Grafton (c. 1668 –1723) Henry FitzRoy, 1st Duke of Grafton (⚭ 1672–1690) Sir Thomas Hanmer, 4th Baronet (⚭ 1698) 1691 Margaret Stawell, Baroness Stawell (1672/1673–1728) John Stawell, 2nd Baron Stawell (⚭ 1691–1692) Richard Jones, 1st Earl of Ranelagh (⚭ 1696–1712 ...