Allan MacLeod Cormack
American physicist (1924-1998) · United States · Scientists · Died at 74
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Something wrong?A physicist who helped invent the CT scanner - then shared a Nobel Prize in Medicine for it, despite never earning a PhD in any scientific field.
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34. Tagung 1984 Mediziner; Verabschiedung H.-H. Kunckel, Allen Cormack - W134Nr.123006 - Willy Pragher (cropped)_Mediziner%3B_Gruppen_bei_der_Maik%C3%A4ferrede_A._Putz%2C_Allen_Cormack_-_W134Nr.118157d_-_Willy_Pragher.jpg?width=1200)
31. Tagung 1981 (29.6.-3.7.) Mediziner; Gruppen bei der Maikäferrede A. Putz, Allen Cormack - W134Nr.118157d - Willy Pragher_Mediziner%3B_Gruppen_bei_der_Maik%C3%A4ferrede_Allen_Cormack_-_W134Nr.118154_-_Willy_Pragher.jpg?width=1200)
31. Tagung 1981 (29.6.-3.7.) Mediziner; Gruppen bei der Maikäferrede Allen Cormack - W134Nr.118154 - Willy Pragher
34. Tagung 1984 Mediziner; Eröffnung am 25.6. Allen Cormack, Severo Ochoa - W134Nr.122972d - Willy Pragher
34. Tagung 1984 Mediziner; Eröffnung am 25.6. Allen Cormack, Severo Ochoa - W134Nr.122972e - Willy Pragher
34. Tagung 1984 Mediziner; Verabschiedung H.-H. Kunckel, Allen Cormack - W134Nr.123006 - Willy Pragher
37. Tagung 1987 Mediziner Allen Cormack - W134Nr.125418a - Willy Pragher
37. Tagung 1987 Mediziner Allen Cormack und Daniel C. Gajdusek - W134Nr.125415b - Willy PragherIn their own words 2
, There is also hope that even in these days of increasing specialization there is a unity in the human experience.
my interests outside my academic work were debating, tennis, and to a lesser extent, acting.
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About this person
Allan MacLeod Cormack was born in South Africa on February 23, 1924, and would spend his career straddling physics and medicine in ways the credential system never anticipated. He became Professor of Physics at Tufts University, where his work on X-ray computed tomography - mathematical theory that made it possible to reconstruct cross-sectional images of the body - caught the attention of the Nobel committee. In 1979 he and Godfrey Hounsfield won the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine, a rare crossing of disciplines and a rarer feat for someone without a doctorate. He died on May 7, 1998.
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