Imagining the elephant
Subtitle: a biography of Allan MacLeod Cormack
By: Christopher L. Vaughan.
Publisher: Imperial College Press; Distributed by World Scientific Pub. Co.
Published: 2008
Place of publication: London; Hackensack, NJ
Language: eng
Number of pages: 304
ISBN-13: 9781860949883
Subjects: Cormack, Allan Macleod, -- 1924-1998; Physicists -- South Africa -- Biography; Nobel Prize winners -- South Africa -- Biography
Genres: Biography.
Description: 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 honour he shared with Godfrey Hounsfield.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 259-288) and index.