The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 1979
Awarded on: 1979-10-11
"for the development of computer assisted tomography"
Affiliations:
- Tufts University – Medford, MA, USA
Allan M. Cormack
Born: 1924-02-23 in Johannesburg, South Africa
Gender: male
Field: South African and American physicist
Biography
Allan MacLeod Cormack 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 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.