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Godfrey Hounsfield — Age & Birthday
Born: 18 August 1919 · Died: 12 August 2004 · Age at death: 84
How old was Godfrey Hounsfield when he died?
Godfrey Hounsfield died aged 84. He was born on 18 August 1919 and died on 12 August 2004.
Electrical engineer who co-invented the CT scanner
Did you know?He never attended university, instead gaining his technical knowledge while serving in the Royal Air Force during the Second World War.
Sir Godfrey Newbold Hounsfield ( HOWNZ-feeld; 28 August 1919 – 12 August 2004) was an English electrical engineer who shared the 1979 Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine with Allan MacLeod Cormack for his part in developing the diagnostic technique of X-ray computed tomography (CT).
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- Age at death
- 84
- Would be
- 107
- Years since death
- 22
- Born
- August 18, 1919 · Sutton on Trent, United Kingdom
- Died
- August 12, 2004
- Nationality
- British
- Known for
- Technology, Science
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