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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.
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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English: Sir Godfrey Kneller, Bt. Portrait of the Leopold, Count of Auersperg (1662-1705) inscribed and dated lower right: Count Auversberg./ G. Kneller: fecit / 1696. and further inscribed on the reverse: Count Auversberg / Envoy Extraordinary / from the Emperor to King William / Godfrey Kneller fecit / 1696
Sir David Wilkie (1785–1841) – Principal Painter in Ordinary to the King; Caroline Maria Applebee (c. 1785–1854) Benjamin Haydon (1786–1846) William Mulready (1786–1863) William Etty (1787–1849) John Martin (1789–1854) William Linton (1791–1876) Sir George Hayter (1792–1871) – Principal Painter in Ordinary to the Queen
The first clinical CT scan was performed in a London hospital in 1971 using a scanner invented by Sir Godfrey Hounsfield. [14] The first commercial installation of a CT scanner, an EMI-Scanner Mark I took place at the Mayo Clinic in the U.S. in 1973.
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 ...
Sir John Vanbrugh in Godfrey Kneller's Kit-cat portrait, considered one of Kneller's finest portraits. Portrait of Spencer Compton, 1710 painting of the future Prime Minister. Portrait of Thomas Hopkins by Sir Godfrey Kneller. A kit-cat portrait or kit-kat portrait is a particular size of portrait, less than half-length, but including the hands.