Allan McLeod Cormack - Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine — 1979
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Allan McLeod Cormack

Prize
Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine — 1979
for the development of computer assisted tomography
Together with: Godfrey Hounsfield
Citizenship
South Africa South Africa United States United States
Languages
English
date of birth
2/23/1924
place of birth
Johannesburg
date of death
5/7/1998
place of death
Winchester
Lived
74 years
member of
  • National Academy of Sciences
    • start time: 1983
  • American Academy of Arts and Sciences
  • American Physical Society
educated at
  • St John's College
  • University of Cape Town
  • Rondebosch Boys' High School
employer
  • University of Cambridge
  • Tufts University
  • University of Cape Town
  • Groote Schuur Hospital
field of work
  • physics
occupation
  • physicist
  • researcher
  • biophysicist
  • physician
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