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GODFREY’S AUTOBIOGRAPHIES

In 1983 Godfrey made a fascinating speech to pupils at his former school - click here to read it.

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You can also read about his inspirational physics teacher, ‘Guffer’ Ashton.

In 1979 the Nobel organisation asked Godfrey to write a short autobiography. It is available on the Nobel Prize website: http://www.nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/medicine/laureates/1979/hounsfield-autobio.htmlGodfrey made some minor mistakes in his autobiography.

 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 1951, where I worked for a while on radar”.

His former colleague at EMI, Professor Roger Voles obtained the true date of 10 October 1949 from the administrators of EMI’s pension scheme. This 1949 date also matches a photograph of Godfrey receiv