Martin Wood
British engineer and entrepreneur
Born on: April 19, 1927Died on: November 23, 2021
Aged: 94 years 218 days (1135 months)
Gender: Male
Nationality: United kingdom
Birth Sign: Aries
Sir Martin Francis Wood was a British engineer and entrepreneur. He co-founded Oxford Instruments, one of the first spin-out companies from the University of Oxford and still one of the most successful.
He created this business out of his research into magnets, and went on to build the first commercial MRI scanner, an invention that has saved millions of lives throughout the world.
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