Allan MacLeod Cormack
South African-American physicist
>
Allan MacLeod Cormack was a South African American physicist who won the 1979 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for his work on X-ray computed tomography, a significant and unusual achievement since Cormack did not hold a doctoral degree in... Wikipedia
Born: February 23, 1924, Johannesburg, South Africa
Died: May 7, 1998 (age 74 years), Winchester, MA
Education: Rondebosch Boys' High School, University of Cambridge, University of Cape Town, and more
Known for: Computed tomography