The Washington Post, May 9th, 1998
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 was not reported. The citation for Mr. Cormack's award hailed him "for the development of computer-assisted tomography." The scanning device, which measures density variations in the body's organs, produces what is almost an X-ray in three dimensions. It is now one of the most widely used diagnostic tools in medicine. Mr. Cormack, a Tufts University physicist, s...
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