Allan MacLeod Cormack
American physicist (1924-1998)
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Updated 2026-05-29
Physicist who won the 1979 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for work on CT scanning—despite never holding a science doctorate. Cormack's path through Tufts University proved the credential box doesn't always define the breakthrough.
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Allan MacLeod Cormack was a South African and American physicist, academic, and Nobel Laureate. He was Professor of Physics at Tufts University and won the 1979 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for his work on X-ray computed tomography (CT), a significant and unusual achievement since Cormack did not hold a doctoral degree in any scientific field.
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