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Name: Allan M. Cormack
Birth Date: 1924
Nationality: American
Ethnicity: South African
Gender: Male
Occupations: physicist

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Biography of Allan M. Cormack
1,083 words, approx. 4 pages
Allan M. Cormack was a physicist whose theoretical analysis and experiments in nuclear and particle physics, computer tomography, and math led to his invention of a mathematical technique for computer-assisted x-ray tomography, which revolutionized...
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Biography of Allan M. Cormack
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Allan M. Cormack is a physicist whose theoretical analysis and experiments in the fields of nuclear and particle physics, computer tomography and math led to his invention of a mathematical technique for computer-assisted X-ray tomography. Computerized...


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Cormack, Allan 1924–1998 Hounsfield, Godfrey Newbold 1919– Summary
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Developers of Computer-Assisted Tomography Allan McLeod Cormack and Godfrey Newbold Hounsfield won the Nobel Prize in physiology or medicine in 1979 for their work in the development of computer-assisted tomography (CAT). Allan Cormack was born in...
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Cormack, Allan Macleod
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(born Feb. 23, 1924, Johannesburg, S.Af.—died May 7, 1998, Winchester, Mass., U.S.) South African-born American physicist who, with Godfrey Hounsfield, was awarded the 1979 Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine for his work in developing the...
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Allan Macleod Cormack Summary
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1924-1998 American physicist who shared the 1979 Nobel Prize for Medicine with Sir Godfrey Newbold Hounsfield for the development of the Computerized Axial Tomography (CAT) scanning system, which revolutionized noninvasive medical imaging and...
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Allan MacLeod Cormack (February 23, 1924 – May 7, 1998) was a South African-born American physicist who won the 1979 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (along with Godfrey Hounsfield) for his work on x-ray computed tomography (CT). Cormack was...


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The Independent - London
Obituary: Professor Allan Cormack
08/03/1998: 661 words, approx. 2 pages
ALLAN CORMACK, Nobel Laureate in Medicine and Physiology, was famous as one of the developers of CAT scanning, an advance in X-ray diagnosis which allows information on the entire three-dimensional region scanned by an X-ray beam to be imaged rather than the traditional two-dimension...
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The Washington Post
CAT Scan Developer Allan Cormack Dies
05/09/1998: 490 words, approx. 2 pages
Allan Cormack, 74, a physicist who shared the 1979 Nobel Prize for medicine and physiology for his work with a simple algorithm that led to the development of the CAT scan, died May 7 at his home in Winchester, Mass. The cause of death...
 


 

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