Cormack, Allan Macleod

PE Spargo, University of Cape Town, Rondebosch, South Africa

Published online: April 2001

DOI: 10.1038/npg.els.0002756

1924–1998 South African/ American physicist who jointly invented the medical diagnostic technique known as computer-assisted tomography (CAT).

Keywords: CAT scanning; CT scanning; tomography; X-rays

Figure 1. Allan Macleod Cormack (1924–1998).
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 Further Reading
    Cormack AM (1963) Representation of a function by its line integrals with some radiological applications. Journal of Applied Physics 34: 2722–2727.
    Cormack AM (1964) Representation of a function by its line integrals with some radiological applications, Part 2. Journal of Applied Physics 35: 2908–2913.
    book Altman LK (1979) American and Briton get Nobel Prize for X-ray advance. New York Times 12 October, p. A1.
    Chiro G Di and Brooks RA (1979) The 1979 Nobel prize in Physiology or Medicine. Science 206: 1060–1062.

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Spargo, PE(Apr 2001) Cormack, Allan Macleod. In: eLS. John Wiley & Sons Ltd, Chichester. http://www.els.net [doi: 10.1038/npg.els.0002756]