Godfrey Hounsfield Summary

Godfrey Newbold Hounsfield 1919- British physicist, medical engineer, and inventor who in 1971 at Atkinson Morley's Hospital in Wimbledon built the first clinically successful computerized axia... Read more

Sir Godfrey Hounsfield (born 1919) won the Nobel Prize for medicine for co-inventing the CAT-scan (computer assisted tomography).Sir Godfrey Hounsfield pioneered a great leap forward in medical diagno... Read more

Godfrey Newbold Hounsfield was born August 28, 1919, in Newark, England, the youngest of five children of a steel-industry engineer turned farmer. He graduated from London's City and Guilds College in... Read more