Allan MacLeod Cormack

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).

Quotes

• There is also hope that even in these days of increasing specialization there is a unity in the human experience.
  • Banquet speech, The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 1979

External links

• Encyclopedic article on Allan MacLeod Cormack on Wikipedia