Person Hounsfield; Sir; Godfrey Newbold (1919 - 2004) Hounsfield Godfrey Newbold Sir 1919 - 2004 British Male Newark, Nottinghamshire 28/08/1919 19190828 Kingston upon Thames, Surrey 12/08/2004 20040812

Engineer and inventor Education: Magnus Grammar School, Newark; City and Guilds examination in Radio Communications; diploma from Faraday House Electrical Engineering College, London Career: Builder's drawing office; volunteer reservist with RAF during WW2 - radar mechanic instructor working at Royal College of Science and then Cranwell Radar School, RAF Certificate of Merit (1945); joined research staff Electric and Musical Industries (EMI) Hayes (1951) working on first all transistor computer to be constructed in Britain (EMIDEC 1100, 1958), moved to EMI Central Research Laboratories where he developed the EMI brain scanner, first demonstrated at Atkinson Morley's Hospital, Wimbledon in September 1971; Head of Medical Systems Section, Thorn EMI Central Research Laboratories (1972-1976), Chief Staff Scientist (1976-1977), Senior Staff Scientist (1977-1985), Consultant to Laboratories (1986-2004); winner of MacRobert Award (1972) and many other honours including Lasker Award (1975); continued to work as a consultant for EMI after retirement until 2002 and also for National Heart and Chest Hospitals, Chelsea and the National Heart Hospital and the Brompton Hospital; Honorary Fellow of the Royal Academy of Engineering (1994), received six honorary degrees and more than forty awards; led the team which developed Britain's first large solid state computer and inventor of computerised axial tomography (CAT) scanner for use in clinical diagnosis Medals and prizes: Nobel Prize (Physiology or Medicine) 1979 Honours: CBE 1976; Kt 1981 Youngest of five children of a farmer Medals and prizes: Mullard Medal 1977 Fellow 20/03/1975 55 Sources: Obituary in The Daily Telegraph (17 August 2004), The Times (18 August 2004), The Guardian (19 August 2004), Financial Times (20 August 2004), The Independent (20 August 2004) Biographical Memoirs of Fellows of the Royal Society 2005 vol 51 pp 221-235, plate, by P N T Wells FRS S.Bates, Liz Beckmann, A Thomaas, P Waltham, "Godfrey Hounsfield. Intuitive Genius of CT" 2014 International Standard Archival Authority Record for Corporate Bodies, Persons and Families - ISAAR(CPF) - Ottawa 1996 ISBN 0-9696035-3-3 National Council on Archives, Rules for the Construction of Personal, Place and Corporate Names, 1997 28 Aug 1919 - 12 Aug 2004 NA4450 21/11/2001 Andyg Pmab 28/03/2023 RS_NET\JonathanB Yes http://viaf.org/viaf/166463106 7344846f-2ad3-4151-890e-873fd7e427cd