CT Scanner
date: label: associated dates
content: 1963 / 1963
notes: label: Description
content: Prototype CT scanner developed by Allan M. Cormack (1924-1998), a physicist from South Africa who, in 1957, became an American citizen and a professor at Tufts University in Boston. In 1979, he was a co-recipient of the Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine, for his pioneering work with computer assisted tomography.
label: Description
content: Ref: Allan Macleon Cormack, “Recollections of My Work with Computer Assisted Tomography,” Molecular and Cellular Biochemistry 332 (1980): 57-61.
label: Description
content: “Allan Cormack, 74, Nobelist, Nobelist Who Helped Invent CAT Scan,” New York Times (May 9, 1998), p. A12.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: associated place
content: United States: Massachusetts, Medford
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content: Medicine and Science: Medicine
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content: Cancer
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content: Cancer: Diagnosis
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Tufts University
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 1990.0140.01
label: catalog number
content: 1990.0140.01
label: accession number
content: 1990.0140
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Computerized Tomography Scanner
label: Object Name
content: CT Scanner
label: Object Name
content: CT Scanner, Prototype
label: Other Terms
content: Computerized Tomography Scanner; Imaging Device
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: metal, aluminum (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: plastic, lucite (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: metal (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: black (overall color)
label: Physical Description
content: gold (overall color)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 17.2 cm x 60.1 cm x 35 cm; 6 25/32 in x 23 21/32 in x 13 25/32 in