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Imagining The Elephant

A Biography Of Allan Macleod Cormack

By: Christopher Leonard Vaughan

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Hardcover | 3 June 2008

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Imagining the Elephant is a biography of Allan MacLeod Cormack, a physicist who was awarded the Nobel Prize for Medicine in 1979 for his pioneering contributions to the development of the computer-assisted tomography (CAT) scanner, an honor he shared with Godfrey Hounsfield. A modest genius who was also a dedicated family man, the book is a celebration of Cormack's life and work. It begins with his ancestral roots in the far north of Scotland, and then chronicles his birth and early years in South Africa, his education at the University of Cape Town (UCT) and Cambridge University, and his subsequent academic appointments at UCT and Tufts University in Boston, USA. It details his discovery of the problem at Cape Town in 1956, traces his scientific footsteps all the way to Stockholm in December 1979, and then extends the odyssey to his pursuits beyond the Nobel Prize.

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Non-Fiction Biographies & True Stories Biographies Science, Technology & Medicine Biographies Medicine Other Branches of Medicine Medical Imaging Tomography Science Physics Science in General History of Science

Foreword	p. ix
Preface	p. xi
Acknowledgments	p. xv
From John O'Groats to Jo'burg	p. 1
On the Slopes of Table Mountain	p. 23
Physics and Friends at Cambridge	p. 53
Return to the Fairest Cape	p. 91
A New Beginning in Boston	p. 111
Finding Radon and his Transform	p. 129
On the Road to Stockholm	p. 151
Citizen of the World	p. 181
At Home in Massachusetts	p. 201
Allan Cormack's Publications	p. 217
Nobel Lecture	p. 223
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