Imagining the elephant : a biography of Allan MacLeod Cormack /

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Author / Creator:Vaughan, Christopher L.
Imprint:London : Imperial College Press, ©2008.
Description:1 online resource (xviii, 304 pages) : illustrations, maps
Language:English
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Format: E-Resource Book
URL for this record:http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/11185519
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ISBN:1860949908
9781860949906
9781860949883
1860949886
1860949886
Notes:Includes bibliographical references and index.
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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.
Other form:Print version: Vaughan, Christopher L. Imagining the elephant. London : Imperial College Press, ©2008

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