Godfrey Hounsfield, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

Godfrey Hounsfield

English electrical engineer

Date of Birth: 28-Aug-1919

Place of Birth: Nottinghamshire, England, United Kingdom

Date of Death: 12-Aug-2004

Profession: engineer, physicist

Nationality: United Kingdom

Zodiac Sign: Virgo

Sir Godfrey Newbold Hounsfield (28 August 1919 – 12 August 2004) was an English electrical engineer who shared the 1979 Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine with Allan McLeod 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.
The scale is defined in Hounsfield units (symbol HU), running from air at -1000 HU, through water at 0 HU, and up to dense cortical bone at +1000 HU and more.