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	Allan M. Cormack Biography \| World of Anatomy and Physiology
		Allan M. Cormack was a physicist whose theoretical analysis and experiments in nuclear and particle physics, computer tomography, and math led to his invention of a mathematical technique for computer-assisted x-ray tomography, which revolutionized noninvasive medical diagnosis.
		Cormack was the first to analyze the possibility of such an examination of a biological system in 1963 and 1964, and to develop the equations needed for computer-assisted x-ray reconstruction of pictures of the human brain and body.
		Cormack, who died in 1998, was remembered by his friends as a man with a potent sense of humor, with passionate interests in tennis, swimming, sailing, rock climbing, music, and, as always, astronomy.
	www.bookrags.com /biography/allan-m-cormack-wap (1072 words)

	Allan McLeod Cormack - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Following a sabbatical at Harvard in 1956-57, the couple agreed to move to the United States, and Cormack became a professor at Tufts University in the fall of 1957.
		Cormack became a naturalized citizen of the United States in 1966.
		Cormack died of cancer in Massachusetts at age 74.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Allan_McLeod_Cormack (351 words)

	Allan M. Cormack Biography \| World of Health
		Allan M. Cormack is a physicist whose theoretical analysis and experiments in the fields of nuclear and particle physics, computer tomography and math led to his invention of a mathematical technique for computer-assisted X-ray tomography.
		Allan MacLeod Cormack was born in Johannesburg, South Africa, on February 23, 1924, the son of George and Amelia (MacLeod) Cormack, a civil service engineer and a teacher respectively, who had emigrated from Scotland to South Africa prior to World War I. Young Cormack attended the Rondebosch Boys High School.
		In 1979 Cormack and Hounsfield were awarded the Nobel Prize for physiology or medicine for their joint, though independent, development of CAT scan theory and technology.
	www.bookrags.com /biography/allan-m-cormack-woh (805 words)

	Allan Cormack - Joiners & Building Contractors, Forres, North East Scotland. (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
		Allan Cormack - Joiners & Building Contractors, Forres, North East Scotland.
		Allan Cormack Joiners were formed in 1982 by Allan Cormack and his wife Heather.
		With 23 years in business and 41 years experience in the building trade, Allan has gained valuable experience which is used to help maintain a high standard of workmanship and attention to detail throughout the company, with customer satisfaction our goal.
	www.allancormackjoiners.com /about.htm (249 words)

	Allan MacLeod Cormack (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
		Cormack was unusual in the field of Nobel laureates because he never earned a doctorate degree in medicine or any other field of science.
		In the early 1960s Cormack showed how details of a flat section of soft tissues could be calculated from measurements of the attenuation of X rays passing through it from many different angles.
		He thus provided the mathematical technique for the CAT scan, in which an X-ray source and electronic detectors are rotated about the body and the resulting data is analyzed by a computer to produce a sharp map of the tissues within a cross section of the body.
	medicine.nobel.brainparad.com /allan_macleod_cormack.html (342 words)

	David Allan - Search Results - MSN Encarta
		Allan, David (1744–1796), Scottish artist, who is known for his historical and genre (scenes of everyday life) paintings.
		Bloom, Allan David (1930-1992), American philosopher and university professor.
		Allan David Bloom was born in Indianapolis, Indiana.
	ca.encarta.msn.com /David_Allan.html (76 words)

	Allan McLeod Cormack biography .ms (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
		Allan McLeod Cormack (February 1924 - May 7, 1998) was a South Africa-born American physicist who shared a part of the 1979 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for his work on the computerized axial tomography (CAT) scan.
		Following a sabbatical at Harvard, Cormack became a professor at Tufts University in 1958.
		Cormack died of cancer in Massachuetts at age 74.
	www.biography.ms /Allan_M._Cormack.html (215 words)

	UCT Physics - Allan Cormack
		Allan Cormack was born in Johannesburg in February 1924.
		The hospital physicist at Groote Schuur Hospital had resigned in 1955, and, as the only nuclear physicist in Cape Town, Cormack was asked to spend one-and-a-half days a week at the hospital supervising the use of radioactive isotopes.
		Basically, they repeat the experiment which Cormack performed at UCT in 1957: part of a human being replaces the "phantom", the radiation detectors have changed out of all recognition, and Cormack's beautiful mathematics is hidden inside the computer.
	www.phy.uct.ac.za /courses/dept/cormack.htm (940 words)

	AllRefer.com - Allan MacLeod Cormack (Physics, Biography) - Encyclopedia
		Allan MacLeod Cormack[mukloud´, cOr´muk] Pronunciation Key, 1924–98, American physicist, b.
		After studying at the Univ. of Cape Town (B.S. physics, 1944, M.S. crystallography, 1945), Cambridge, and Harvard, Cormack became a professor at Tufts Univ. in 1958.
		He published his results in two papers in 1963–64, but these generated little interest until the first CAT scan machine, built under the leadership of Godfrey Hounsfield, was introduced in 1972.
	reference.allrefer.com /encyclopedia/C/Cormack.html (216 words)

	Professor Allan Cormack
		Professor Allan MacLeod Cormack, a UCT alumnus, former UCT staff member and joint winner of the Nobel Prize for Medicine or Physiology in 1979, died on May 9 at his home in Winchester, Massachusetts, United States, aged 74.
		Prof Cormack was a lecturer in UCT's Physics Department in the mid-1950s when the idea behind CAT scanning first came to him.
		Prof Cormack was born on February 23, 1924, in Johannesburg.
	web.uct.ac.za /depts/dpa/monpaper/98-no13/cormack.htm (864 words)

	Town of Winchester
		Allan MacLeod Cormack (1924—1998) was a co-recipient of the 1979 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for his work on the computerized axial tomography (CAT) scan.
		He received both his B.S. in physics in 1944 and his M.S. in crystallography in 1945 from the University of Cape Town.
		Following a sabbatical at Harvard in 1956-57, he and his wife agreed to move to the United States, and Cormack became a professor at Tufts University in 1957.
	www.winchester.us /ArchivalCenter/Science.html (411 words)

	Allan Nevins - Search Results - MSN Encarta
		Allan Nevins - Search Results - MSN Encarta
		Nevins, Allan (1890-1971), American educator, historian, and biographer, born in Camp Point, Illinois, and educated at the University of Illinois....
		The former allies had blundered in the past by offering Germany too little, and offering even that too late, until finally Nazi Germany had become...
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	Self-taught pioneer of CT scan - Obituaries - www.smh.com.au
		Introduced in 1973, early CT scanners were used to overcome obstacles in the diagnosis of diseases of the brain; Hounsfield subsequently modified his machine to enable it to scan the whole body.
		Unknown to Hounsfield, a South African nuclear physicist, Allan Cormack, had worked on essentially the same problems of CT, and in a paper published in 1957 had suggested a reconstruction technique called the Radon transform.
		Cormack's work was not widely circulated and he and Hounsfield did not collaborate or even meet.
	www.smh.com.au /articles/2004/09/02/1093939066254.html (1050 words)

	New Page 2 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
		Allan Cormack of South Africa began developing the CT/ CAT scan at the University of Capetown in South Africa in 1957.
		It is Cormack and Oldendorf who will later be able to claim the discovery of the CAT scan.
		In 1979, both Cormack and Hounsfield won the Nobel Prize in physiology/ medicine for their invention of the CAT scan.
	www.sinc.sunysb.edu /Class/cei511/cat.htm (797 words)

	South African inventions - SouthAfrica.info
		Cormack's interest in the problem of X-ray imaging of soft tissues or layers of tissue of differing densities was first aroused when he took up the part-time position of physicist for a hospital radiology department.
		In the early 1960s Cormack showed how details of a flat section of soft tissues could be calculated from measurements of the attenuation of X-rays passing through it from many different angles.
		He thus provided the mathematical technique for the CAT scan, in which an X-ray source and electronic detectors are rotated about the body and the resulting data is analysed by a computer to produce a sharp map of the tissues within a cross-section of the body.
	www.southafrica.info /doing_business/trends/innovations/inventions.htm (1543 words)

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		CORMACK Wick, Caithness, Scotland Mother: Janet Cormach Alexr.
		CORMACK Wick, Caithness, Scotland Mother: Isobel Reid Alexr.
		CORMACK Olrig, Caithness, Scotland Mother: Janet WATERS Alexr.
	www.cursiter.com /txt-exe-files/Cormack.txt (5559 words)

	Cat-scans.info - Home (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
		CT or catscans was invented in 1972 by British engineer Godfrey Hounsfield of EMI Laboratories, England and by South Africa-born physicist Allan Cormack of Tufts University, Massachusetts.
		Hounsfield and Cormack were later awarded the Nobel Peace Prize for their contributions to medicine and science.
		CT was invented in 1972 by British engineer Godfrey Hounsfield of EMI Laboratories, England and by South Africa-born physicist Allan Cormack of Tufts University, Massachusetts.
	cat-scan.info (262 words)

	TIME.com: Triumph of the Odd Couple -- Oct. 22, 1979 -- Page 1
		But on opposite sides of the Atlantic, U.S. Physicist Allan Cormack, 55, of Tufts University, and Research Engineer Godfrey Hounsfield, 60, of the British firm EMI Ltd., brooded over the same mathematical puzzle and independently reached the same solution.
		When Cormack immigrated to the U.S. that year (he became an American citizen a decade later), he began exploring the physics of how X rays pass through differing body parts.
		Cormack published his findings in 1963 but did not pursue a practical application of his idea.
	www.time.com /time/magazine/article/0,9171,947527,00.html (716 words)

	Allan McLeod Cormack Beschreibung in Library - Definition und Buch-Tipp.
		Hier finden Sie detailierte Informationen zum Wissensgebiet Allan McLeod Cormack.
		Allan McLeod Cormack (* Februar 1924 in Johannesburg, &dagger; 7.05, 1998 in Massachusetts) war Physiker.
		Cormack studierte Physik in Kapstadt und schloss das Studium 1944 als Bachelor of Sciences ab.
	allan_m_cormack.know-library.net (700 words)

	The Society of Neurological Surgeons
		While at Tufts, one of his physics professors, Allan Cormack, was awarded a Nobel Prize for research work that made possible the development of the CT scanner.
		Exposure to Professor Cormack and his innovative research influenced Dr. Howard’s decision to pursue a career in medicine with a particular emphasis on applying principals of physics to the challenges of medicine.
		Soon after enrolling in medical school at the University of Virginia, he discovered that academic neurosurgery, as promulgated by Dr. John Jane and his trainees, was the answer to his career quest.
	www.societyns.org /society/bio.aspx?MemberID=6319 (526 words)

	Allan MacLeod Cormack (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
		Two memorial funds are now honouring the late Prof Allan Cormack, the UCT alumnus and former staff member who won the Nobel Prize for Medicine for his his work on the CAT scanning system.
		Prof Cormack died at his home in Winchester, Massachusetts, United States, in May. He spent most of his career in the Physics Department at Tufts University, Massachusetts.
		Meanwhile, the Allan MacLeod Cormack Graduate Fellowship in Physics is being administered by Tufts University.
	web.uct.ac.za /depts/dpa/monpaper/98-no20/corfund.htm (212 words)

	Medical Imaging Research unit
		This new research unit forms a part of the Allan Cormack Institute for Medical Imaging.
		Allan MacLeod Cormack was a graduate of the University of Cape Town and a Lecturer in the Department of Physics from 1950 to 1956.
		While seconded to Groote Schuur Hospital in 1956, Cormack initiated a research project which laid the foundation for the development of the computed tomography (CT) scanner.
	www.mrc.ac.za /imaging/imaging.htm (272 words)

	American Mathematical Society :: Feature Column
		The original example of this sort of technology, and the ancestor of many of these technologies, is what is now called computed tomography, for which Allan Cormack, a physicist whose research became more and more mathematical as time went on, laid down the theoretical foundations around 1960.
		In fact the basic idea of tomography had been discovered for purely theoretical reasons in 1917 by the Austrian mathematician Johann Radon, and it had been rediscovered several times since by others, but Cormack was not to know this until much later than his own independent discovery.
		Allan M. Cormack, `Early two-dimensional reconstruction and recent topics stemming from it', Nobel Prize lecture, 1979.
	www.ams.org /featurecolumn/archive/tomography.html (2401 words)

	UCT Physics - R.W. James
		In my first two years John Juritz had enthralled me, and in 1952 I found that Allan Cormack and "Prof.James" were sharing the course teaching.
		It is a particular pleasure to thank Allan Cormack, John Juritz and Aaron Klug for their comments on the manuscript.
		In connection with another story, Allan has shown me his own interesting (unpublished) account of how James came to the chair at U.C.T.; he recalls, specifically, that James had lost out to one of Rutherford's "boys" in competition for the chair at Birmingham.
	www.phy.uct.ac.za /courses/dept/rwjames.htm (2475 words)

	Mathematics Awareness Week 1994
		But if computers are the eyes of medical imaging, then mathematics is certainly its brain.
		The Nobel Committee recognized this by awarding half of the 1979 prize for physiology or medicine to U.S. physicist Allan Cormack.
		Cormack and British researcher Godfrey Hounsfield, who shared the prize, each independently figured out a way to reconstruct the internal structures of the body from essentially flat, two-dimensional X-ray images.
	www.mathaware.org /mam/94/article2.html (699 words)

	Allan M. Cormack - Autobiography
		To cite this document, always state the source as shown above.
		Allan M. Cormack died on May 7, 1998.
		The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 1979
	www.nobel.se /medicine/laureates/1979/cormack-autobio.html (1069 words)

	Arizona Math Awareness Week 1998 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
		In the early 1960s, the quality of the X ray images being produced were similar to the ones seen by Rontgen at the beginning of the century.
		At this time, Allan Cormack began to popularize and extend Radon's work.
		In 1979, both Alan Cormack and Godfrey Hounsfield received the Nobel Prize for Physiology and Medicine.
	math.arizona.edu /~maw1998/catscan/page2.html (143 words)

	Cormack - The Cormack Trail
		Allan M. Cormack My parents went from the north of Scotland to South Africa
		CORMACK Anest Iwata has released the W101 Agitator gravity feed spray gun.
		Cormack had hoped to meet the indigenous people of Newfoundland, the Beothuks but The Cormack Trail is an eight day hike with overnight stops at eight
	cormack.surferfind.com (191 words)

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