My uncle (Peter Langstone) passed away on Thursday 24th September 2009. I was not close to him in any way. As a child we spent the occasional days visiting him and his wife. These experiences were rather boring for a young child.

Apart from family functions we rary met and even as an adult then, had very little of interest to say or talk about. How wrong could I be!

Only after his death did I find out that he worked on designing and build a 1,000,000 bit computer memory in the early 1960's. This was before the invention of the silicon chip which revolutionized the computer industry.

But that was not his most impressive feat. In the late 1960"s he worked at EMI (the company better known at the time for publishing the Beatles records) with Godfrey Hounsfield (soon to become Sir Godfrey Hounsdfield) and a small team of 2 others, Stephen Bates (programming), Peter Langstone (electronics) and Mel King (mechanics), developing the "Computerised Axial Tomography".

Well, Computerised Axial Tomography is better known as the CT Scanner used in hospitals around the world.

So my uncle was apart of something that has done so much good around the world and yet it was not worth talking about.

Strange what you find out, too late.

So this is my little tribute to Peter and the part he played in loads of peoples lives without knowing.

RIP Peter Langstone

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