Allan MacLeod Cormack

Allan MacLeod Cormack (Fabrairu 23, 1924 - Mayu 7, 1998) masanin kimiyyar kimiya na Afirka ta Kudu ne wanda ya ci lambar yabo ta Nobel a Physiology ko Medicine a 1979 (tare da Godfrey Hounsfield ) don aikinsa kan X-ray computed tomography (CT), gagarumar nasara kuma sabon abu tunda Cormack bai riƙe digiri na uku a kowane fanni na kimiyya ba.  ￼

 Rayuwar farko da ilimi 
An haifi Cormack a Johannesburg, Afirka ta Kudu. Ya halarci makarantar sakandare ta Rondebosch Boys a Cape Town, inda ya kasance mai himma a cikin muhawara da kungiyoyin wasan tennis.  Ya samu B.Sc. a physics a 1944 daga Jami'ar Cape Town da kuma M.Sc. a cikin crystallography a 1945 daga wannan ma'aikata. Ya kasance dalibin digiri na uku a Jami'ar Cambridge daga 1947-49, kuma yayin da yake Cambridge ya sadu da matarsa ta gaba, Barbara Seavey, ɗalibin kimiyyar lissafi na Amurka.

 Sana'a 
Bayan ya auri Barbara, ya koma Jami'ar Cape Town a farkon 1950 don karantarwa. Bayan bin sabbatical a Harvard a 1956-57, ma'auratan sun yarda su koma Amurka, kuma Cormack ya zama farfesa a Jami'ar Tufts a cikin kaka na 1957. Cormack ya zama ɗan ƙasa na Amurka a cikin 1966. Ko da yake ya kasance yana aiki ne akan ilimin kimiyyar ɗan adam, sha'awar Cormack game da fasahar x-ray ya sa shi haɓaka ƙa'idodin ka'idar CT scanning. An fara wannan aikin a Jami'ar Cape Town da asibitin Groote Schuur a farkon 1956 kuma ya ci gaba a takaice a tsakiyar 1957 bayan ya dawo daga sabbatical. An buga sakamakonsa daga baya a cikin takardu biyu a cikin Journal of Applied Physics a 1963 da 1964. Waɗannan takaddun sun haifar da ƙarancin sha'awa har Hounsfield da abokan aiki suka gina na'urar daukar hotan takardu ta CT ta farko a cikin 1971, suna ɗaukar lissafin ka'idar Cormack zuwa aikace-aikacen gaske. Don ƙoƙarinsu mai zaman kansa, Cormack da Hounsfield sun raba lambar yabo ta Nobel ta 1979 a cikin ilimin halittar jiki ko magani. Abin lura ne cewa su biyun sun gina nau'in na'ura mai kama da juna ba tare da haɗin gwiwa ba a sassa daban-daban na duniya [3]. Ya kasance memba na Kwalejin Kimiyya ta Duniya, Munich. A cikin 1990, an ba shi lambar yabo ta Kimiyya ta ƙasa . 

 Mutuwa 
Cormack ya mutu sakamakon ciwon daji a Winchester, Massachusetts yana da shekaru 74. An ba shi lambar yabo ta Mapungubwe a ranar 10 ga Disamba 2002 don manyan nasarori a matsayin masanin kimiyya da haɗin gwiwar ƙirƙira na'urar daukar hoto ta CT.

 Nassoshi 

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 Allan M. Cormack on Nobelprize.org 

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