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Hounsfield was born in Sutton-on-Trent, Nottinghamshire, England, in Since his childhood, he displayed an uncanny interest in fiddling with electrical.
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GODFREY’S AUTOBIOGRAPHIES
In Godfrey made a fascinating speech to pupils at his former school - click here to read it. You can also read about his inspirational physics teacher, ‘Guffer’ Ashton.
In the Nobel organisation asked Godfrey to write a short autobiography.
It is available on the Nobel Prize website: made some minor mistakes in his autobiography.
Sir Godfrey Newbold Hounsfield was a British electrical engineer who shared the Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine with Allan MacLeod Cormack for.He says that “in a village there are few distractions and no pressures to join in at a ball game or go to the cinema.” In fact, Godfrey helped his friend Geoffrey Walton to set up and run a cinema in Sutton-on-Trent. Godfrey also said that “I joined the staff of EMI in Middlesex in , where I worked for a while on radar”.
His former colleague at EMI, Professor Roger Voles obtained the true date of 10 October from the administrators of EMI’s pension scheme. This date also matches a photograph of Godfrey receiving an award for 25 year’s service with EMI in November and his first patent for EMI in
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