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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. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Godfrey Hounsfield has received more than 351,024 page views. His biography is available in 50 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 48 in 2019). Godfrey Hounsfield is the 50th most popular engineer (down from 36th in 2019), the 830th most popular biography from United Kingdom (down from 730th in 2019) and the 3rd 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 50 out of 389. Before him are William John Macquorn Rankine, Moshe Arens, Vannevar Bush, Lu Ban, John Ambrose Fleming, and Arthur Scherbius. After him are Gustaf de Laval, Herbert Kitchener, 1st Earl Kitchener, Charles George Gordon, Alexander Wienerberger, Bjarne Stroustrup, and Viktor Belenko.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1919, Godfrey Hounsfield ranks 45. Before him are Gillo Pontecorvo, Jackie Robinson, Pete Seeger, Georges Duby, Charles Sweeney, and Abdel Hakim Amer. After him are Elisabeth Volkenrath, Siad Barre, Donald J. Cram, Chavela Vargas, Martin Balsam, and William Lipscomb. Among people deceased in 2004, Godfrey Hounsfield ranks 41. Before him are Edward B. Lewis, Fanny Blankers-Koen, Andriyan Nikolayev, John Vane, Theo van Gogh, and Charles Sweeney. After him are Robert Merle, Gérard Debreu, Ko Yong-hui, Nicolai Ghiaurov, Herbert C. Brown, and Arthur Hailey.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, Godfrey Hounsfield ranks 830 out of 8,785. Before him are William Carey (1761), Edward Whymper (1840), Peter Cushing (1913), H. L. A. Hart (1907), Derek Jacobi (1938), and Mairead Maguire (1944). After him are Cliff Williams (1949), Harold Alexander, 1st Earl Alexander of Tunis (1891), David Coverdale (1951), Lady Mary Victoria Douglas-Hamilton (1850), Æthelbald, King of Wessex (831), and William Bateson (1861).

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Among ENGINEERS In United Kingdom

Among engineers born in United Kingdom, Godfrey Hounsfield ranks 3. Before him are William John Macquorn Rankine (1820), and John Ambrose Fleming (1849). After him are Charles George Gordon (1833), Colin Chapman (1928), Isambard Kingdom Brunel (1806), Henry Royce (1863), Charles Rolls (1877), Alexander Cunningham (1814), George Cayley (1773), Hertha Ayrton (1854), and Adrian Newey (1958).

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