Martin Wood
British engineer and entrepreneur
Died when: 94 years 218 days (1135 months)Star Sign: Aries
Sir Martin Francis Wood, CBE, FRS, HonFREng (19 April 1927 – 23 November 2021) 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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