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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...