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Hounsfield was born in Sutton-on-Trent, Nottinghamshire, England on 28 August 1919. [14] He was the youngest of five children (he has two brothers and two sisters). His father, Thomas Hounsfield was a farmer from Beighton, and was linked to the prominent Hounsfield and Newbold families of Hackenthorpe Hall, his mother was Blanche Dilcock.
Sir Godfrey Hounsfield CBE, electrical engineer, responsible for the CT scanner (or CAT scan) at the EMI Central Laboratories at Hayes, and joint-recipient of the 1979 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine with Allan McLeod Cormack, gave his name to the Hounsfield scale, and also led the team that built the EMIDEC 1100, Britain's first ...
Allan MacLeod Cormack (February 23, 1924 – May 7, 1998) was a South African American physicist and Professor of Physics at Tufts University who won the 1979 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (along with Godfrey Hounsfield) for his work on X-ray computed tomography (CT), a significant and unusual achievement since Cormack did not hold a doctoral degree in any scientific field.
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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 ...
Ommaya also did early work with the computed tomography (CT) scanner. His work with Sir Godfrey Hounsfield to determine the spatial resolution of the CT scanner opened the door for its use in stereotactic surgery. Spinal angiography was also pioneered by Ommaya, Di Chiro, and Doppman.
Sir Robert Wilson (1927–2002) [20] Sir Godfrey Newbold Hounsfield (1919–2004) [21] George P. L. Walker (1926–2005) [22] Dame Anne McLaren (1927–2007) [23] Stanley Hay Umphray Bowie (1917–2008) Andrew R. Lang (1924–2008) Boris P. Stoicheff (1924–2010) Anthony Milner Lane (d. 2011) Ralph Owen Slatyer (1929–2012) A. David ...
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