{"id":513,"date":"2016-05-13T11:07:17","date_gmt":"2016-05-13T10:07:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/olioweb.me.uk\/CarisbrookeGrammar1966\/?page_id=513"},"modified":"2026-01-19T16:38:12","modified_gmt":"2026-01-19T16:38:12","slug":"catch-up-with-albert-lonn","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/olioweb.me.uk\/CarisbrookeGrammar-1966\/?page_id=513","title":{"rendered":"Catch up with Albert Lonn"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright wp-image-514 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/olioweb.me.uk\/CarisbrookeGrammar-1966\/wp-content\/uploads\/Albert-Lonn.png\" alt=\"Albert Lonn\" width=\"167\" height=\"197\" srcset=\"https:\/\/olioweb.me.uk\/CarisbrookeGrammar-1966\/wp-content\/uploads\/Albert-Lonn.png 167w, https:\/\/olioweb.me.uk\/CarisbrookeGrammar-1966\/wp-content\/uploads\/Albert-Lonn-100x118.png 100w, https:\/\/olioweb.me.uk\/CarisbrookeGrammar-1966\/wp-content\/uploads\/Albert-Lonn-150x177.png 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 167px) 100vw, 167px\" \/>I enjoyed recognising so many of the happy people in the 1966 photo and look forward to the reunion.<\/p>\n<p><strong>What I have I been doing since 1966?<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>I went straight from CGS to start a 4 year BTech sandwich course in Applied Physics at Brunel University with 6-month &#8220;sandwiches&#8221; performing practical research work in non-destructive testing in Sellafield, Harwell and BP research, Sunbury.<\/li>\n<li>After spending a year programming computers for a data processing company I took up a research post investigating the application of computers in medicine at the Royal Free Hospital Medical School (RFHMS). My work on Emission Tomography gained me a PhD from the University of London and started me on a career in medical imaging which lasted until my retirement.<\/li>\n<li>I met my wife Margaret, also a physicist, at RFHSM and we married in July 1975.<\/li>\n<li>In 1977 I joined EMI in Hayes to work on further development of the X-ray CT scanner (\u201cEMI scanner&#8221;) which had been invented by Sir Godfrey Hounsfield. I continued working for General Electric on Nuclear, PET and X-ray body scanners when they absorbed EMI&#8217;s medical imaging business.<\/li>\n<li>My wife and small daughter emigrated with me when I worked for GE in Wisconsin USA and we returned six years later with a second daughter born in the USA. We spent our holidays touring the USA and were impressed by the immense scale of the landscape compared to the Isle of Wight.<\/li>\n<li>We live in Beaconsfield and I maintain my health in retirement with gardening, Yoga and Zumba!<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>What do I remember from School?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>When I stood on the shore of Lake Michigan and realised I could not see land on the other side, I recalled the assertion of the geography teacher that you could sink the whole Isle of Wight into the Great Lakes.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I enjoyed recognising so many of the happy people in the 1966 photo and look forward to the reunion. What I have I been doing since 1966? I went straight from CGS to start a 4 year BTech sandwich course &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/olioweb.me.uk\/CarisbrookeGrammar-1966\/?page_id=513\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Catch up with Albert Lonn<\/span> Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-513","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olioweb.me.uk\/CarisbrookeGrammar-1966\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/513","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/olioweb.me.uk\/CarisbrookeGrammar-1966\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/olioweb.me.uk\/CarisbrookeGrammar-1966\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olioweb.me.uk\/CarisbrookeGrammar-1966\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olioweb.me.uk\/CarisbrookeGrammar-1966\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=513"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/olioweb.me.uk\/CarisbrookeGrammar-1966\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/513\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1081,"href":"https:\/\/olioweb.me.uk\/CarisbrookeGrammar-1966\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/513\/revisions\/1081"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olioweb.me.uk\/CarisbrookeGrammar-1966\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=513"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}