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Imagining the elephant

by Christopher L. Vaughan

BiographyNobel Prize winnersPhysicistsPhysicists, biographyTomography Scanners, X-Ray ComputedHistoryPhysics

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.

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