Imagining the elephant : a biography of Allan MacLeod Cormack / Christopher L. Vaughan.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Vaughan, Christopher L.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Nobel Prize winners--South Africa--Biography.

Nobel Prize winners.

Physicists--South Africa--Biography.

Physicists.

Cormack, Allan Macleod, 1924-1998.

Cormack, Allan Macleod.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (324 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

London : Imperial College Press ; Hackensack, NJ : Distributed by World Scientific Pub. Co., c2008.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Imagining the Elephant is a 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 honor he shared with Godfrey Hounsfield. A modest genius who was also a dedicated family man, the book is a celebration of Cormack's life and work. It begins with his ancestral roots in the far north of Scotland, and then chronicles his birth and early years in South Africa, his education at the University of Cape Town (UCT) and Cambridge University, and his subs

Contents:

Contents; Foreword; Preface; Acknowledgments; 1. From John O'Groats to Jo'burg; 2. On the Slopes of Table Mountain; 3. Physics and Friends at Cambridge; 4. Return to the Fairest Cape; 5. A New Beginning in Boston; 6. Finding Radon and his Transform; 7. On the Road to Stockholm; 8. Citizen of the World; 9. At Home in Massachusetts; Appendix A Allan Cormack's Publications; Appendix B Nobel Lecture; References; Appendix C Presentation of Nobel Prize; Appendix D Man and Science in the 21st Century; Appendix E A Teenager's Odyssey; Notes; Figures; Index

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 259-288) and index.

ISBN:

9786611869519

9781281869517

1281869511

9781860949906

1860949908

OCLC:

297819774