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Sir Godfrey Newbold Hounsfield 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).

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science · British electrical engineer (1919–2004) · engineer · physicist · also Godfrey Hounsfield, Sir Godfrey Newbold Hounsfield, Godfrey N. Hounsfield, Godfrey Newbold Hounsfield, Hounsfield

Born 28 August 1919 · Died 12 August 2004 · Q273769

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Awarded National Inventors Hall of Fame (2007).
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Awarded honorary Fellow of the Royal College of Surgeons (1980).
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2007· 1 entry

Jun 15, 2007Documented record84% confidence

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Awarded National Inventors Hall of Fame (2007).

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2004· 1 entry

Aug 12, 2004Documented record86% confidence

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Died 2004-08-12.

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1994· 1 entry

1994Source gives the year onlyDocumented record66% confidence

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Was elected an Honorary Fellow of the Royal Academy of Engineering

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1986· 1 entry

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And used the prize money from his Nobel to build a personal laboratory in his home

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1980· 2 entries

Jun 15, 1980Documented record84% confidence

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Awarded honorary Fellow of the Royal College of Surgeons (1980).

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Jun 15, 1980Documented record84% confidence

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Awarded X-ray badge (1980).

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1979· 3 entries

Dec 10, 1979Documented record85% confidence

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Awarded the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine — for the development of computer assisted tomography.

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Jun 15, 1979Documented record84% confidence

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Awarded Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (1979).

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1979Source gives the year onlyDocumented record70% confidence

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Hounsfield and Cormack received the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine

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1977· 3 entries

Jun 15, 1977Documented record84% confidence

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Awarded Mullard Award (1977).

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Jun 15, 1977Documented record84% confidence

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Won Howard N. Potts Medal (1977).

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Jun 15, 1977Documented record84% confidence

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Awarded John Scott Award (1977).

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1976· 3 entries

Jun 15, 1976Documented record84% confidence

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Awarded Canada Gairdner International Award (1976).

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Jun 15, 1976Documented record84% confidence

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Won Dennis Gabor Medal and Prize (1976).

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1976Source gives the year onlyDocumented record66% confidence

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Received the Golden Plate Award of the American Academy of Achievement

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1975· 3 entries

Jun 15, 1975Documented record84% confidence

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Awarded Lasker-DeBakey Clinical Medical Research Award (1975).

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1975Source gives the year onlyDocumented record66% confidence

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And was senior researcher (and after his retirement in 1984, consultant) to the laboratories

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1975Source gives the year onlyDocumented record70% confidence

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Hounsfield built a whole-body scanner

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1974· 1 entry

Jun 15, 1974Documented record84% confidence

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Won Wilhelm Exner Medal (1974).

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1973· 1 entry

Jan 1, 1973Documented record79% confidence

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Published “Computerized transverse axial scanning (tomography): Part 1. Description of system” in The British Journal of Radiology — cited 2,902 times.

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1958· 1 entry

1958Source gives the year onlyDocumented record66% confidence

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Helped design the first commercially available all-transistor computer made in Great Britain: the EMIDEC 1100

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1949· 1 entry

1949Source gives the year onlyDocumented record70% confidence

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Hounsfield began work at EMI, Ltd

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1919· 1 entry

Aug 28, 1919Documented record86% confidence

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Born 1919-08-28.

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