Sir Godfrey Newbold Hounsfield CBE (* 28 August 1919 in Newark in Nottinghamshire; "† 12 August 2004 in Kingston upon Thames) was an English electrical engineer and is considered as one of the fathers of the Computertomografie.

Grown up in a small place in Nottinghamshire as the youngest of five children of a steel worker, he was interested already early in the technical devices, which were on the paternal farm in use. In many waghalsigen attempts its knowledge urge was expressed. He built phonographs, let tons explode and organized flight tests of a heap of hay. The attendance of the Magnus Grammar School in Newark aroused its interest in mathematics and physics. With the outbreak of the Second World War it announced 1939 voluntarily as a reservist to the Royal air Force and kept an employment as "“radar Mechanic Instructor"”, where it was involved by large screen display oscilloscopes in the development. Following the war it locked at the Faraday House Electrical engineering college in London as a scholarship holder with the diploma. 1951 he got with Electric and musical Industries (EMI) in Hayes, Middlesex an employment and worked on radar device and guided weapons.

Starting from 1958 it led a group of developments, which developed the first completely computer EMIDEC consisting of transistors 1100 in England. When EMI swam by enormous successes of the Beatles in money, he was allowed to select himself its research field freely. It looked for new methods to represent the inner body. The idea was to evaluate X-ray on many axles by computers and to receive so overlapping-free tomographies. 1968 it examined the brain of a pig. Nine days scannte the machine, two hours counted the computer at the 28,000 measurements.

In further experiments, for which he drove with bull Hirnen from the slaughterhouse in the bag by bus and course by London, it refined mechanics and algorithms. 1971 were examined first humans by Computertomograf (CT), a woman with a Hirnzyste. Altogether it fiddled from 1967 to 1976 with the development first prototypes of the Computertomografen. But it was distinguished together with Allan M. Cormack 1979 with the Nobelpreis for medicine. 1981 were struck the lifelong bachelor for its invention from the English queen to the knight. After it the Hounsfield unit is designated (see Hounsfield scale), as which the extinction of light of a fabric is indicated in the computer tomography. It had referred its first firm domicile at the age of 60 years.

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• Nobelpreis medicine 1979: Commemorative speeches, autobiographies etc.

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