Sir Godfrey Newbold Hounsfield was an English electrical engineer renowned for co-developing computerized axial tomography (CAT scan) technology, for which he received the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1979 alongside Allan Cormack. He is also credited with the invention of the Hounsfield scale, a quantitative measure of radiodensity used to assess images from CT scans. Hounsfield's groundbreaking work significantly enhanced diagnostic imaging and has had a lasting impact on medicine.
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Meaning of the name - Godfrey
peace-god
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Godfrey Hounsfield belongs to the GI Generation group.
Place of Birth: Sutton on Trent
Place of Death: Kingston upon Thames
Educated At: Faraday House | Magnus Church of England School
Occupation: physicist | engineer
Awards Received: Fellow of the Royal Society | honorary Fellow of the Royal College of Surgeons | Commander of the Order of the British Empire | Gabor Medal and Prize | X-ray badge | Howard N. Potts Medal | National Inventors Hall of Fame | Canada Gairdner International Award | Knight Bachelor | Wilhelm Exner Medal | Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine | Lasker-DeBakey Clinical Medical Research Award
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Note: Moon position is location and time sensitive.| Planet | Position (Tropical, Western) | Transits on August 28, 2025 | Secondary Progressions for August 28, 2025 |
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| Sun | 4 Virgo 19 | 5 Virgo 38 | 19 Sagittarius 38 |
| Moon | 10 Libra 38 | 7 Scorpio 46 | 1 Virgo 1 |
| Mercury | 17 Leo 15 | 21 Leo 4 | 1 Sagittarius 46 |
| Venus | 26 Virgo 34 | 3 Leo 36 | 3 Scorpio 56 |
| Mars | 3 Leo 29 | 13 Libra 47 | 6 Libra 38 |
| Jupiter | 5 Leo 30 | 17 Cancer 17 | 17 Leo 48 |
| Saturn | 2 Virgo 41 | 0 Aries 7 | 12 Virgo 17 |
| Uranus | 29 Aquarius 29 | 1 Gemini 27 | 28 Aquarius 15 |
| Neptune | 10 Leo 0 | 1 Aries 26 | 11 Leo 19 |
| Pluto | 7 Cancer 27 | 1 Aquarius 49 | 7 Cancer 3 |
| Rahu | 29 Scorpio 0 | 18 Pisces 48 | 23 Scorpio 24 |
| Ketu | 29 Taurus 0 | 18 Virgo 48 | 23 Taurus 24 |
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