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Allan McLeod Cormack

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Allan McLeod Cormack

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Also known as Allan MacLeod Cormack, Allan M. Cormack, Allan Cormack

American physicist (1924-1998)

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Allan McLeod Cormack was born on February 23, 1924, and died on May 7, 1998. He received one Nobel Prize.

His work is recognized in several collections, including the Nobel Laureates collection, the Nobel Medicine collection, the American Academy Arts Sciences collection, and the National Medal Of Science collection.

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Nobel Prize

  • The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine1979

    “for the development of computer assisted tomography”

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Wikidata facts

Instance of
human
Given name
Allan
Gender
male
Citizenship
South Africa
Place of birth
Johannesburg
Place of death
Winchester
Occupation
researcher
Employer
Groote Schuur Hospital
Languages spoken
English language
Academic degree
professor
Field of work
physics
Image
34. Tagung 1984 Mediziner; Verabschiedung H.-H. Kunckel, Allen Cormack - W134Nr.123006 - Willy Pragher (cropped).jpg
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member of
National Academy of Sciences
date of death
1998-05-07
date of birth
1924-02-23
cause of death
cancer
manner of death
natural causes
name in native language
Allan McLeod Cormack
interested in
physics
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Encyclopedic overview

Allan MacLeod Cormack (February 23, 1924 – May 7, 1998) 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 (along with Godfrey Hounsfield) 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.

Early life and education

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