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 honour he shared with Godfrey Hounsfield. This book celebrates th...

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1. Verfasser:	Vaughan, Christopher L. (VerfasserIn)
Format:	Buch
Sprache:	English
Veröffentlicht:	Lansdowne, South Africa UCT Press 2008
Schlagworte:	Cormack, Allan Macleod / 1924-1998 Cormack, Allan Macleod <1924-1998> Cormack, Allan Macleod > 1924-1998 Physicists / South Africa / Biography Nobel Prize winners Physicists > South Africa > Biography Südafrika (Staat) Biografie
Zusammenfassung:	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 honour he shared with Godfrey Hounsfield. This book celebrates the life and work of a modest genius who was also a dedicated family man. It starts with his ancestral roots in the 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 subsequent academic appointments at UCT and Tufts University in Boston, USA. It details his discovery of the problem at Cape Town in 1956, traces his scientific footsteps all the way to Stockholm in December 1979, and then extends the odyssey to his pursuits beyond the Nobel Prize
Beschreibung:	Published in London by Imperial College Press Includes bibliographical references (p. 259- 288) and index
Beschreibung:	XVIII, 304 S. Ill. 23 cm