British electrical engineer Godfrey Hounsfield died #OTD in 2004.
He 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). His name is immortalised in the Hounsfield scale, a quantitative measure of radiodensity used in evaluating CT scans.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Godfrey_Hounsfield
His patent showed in the figure is avaliable here:
https://patents.justia.com/patent/4115698
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