For outstanding achievements as a scientist and for co-inventing the CT scanner
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Allan McLeod Cormack
Allan MacLeod Cormack was a South African and American physicist, academic, and Nobel Laureate. He was Professor of Physics at Tufts University and won the 1979 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for his work on X-ray computed tomography (CT), a significant and unusual achievement since Cormack did not hold a doctoral degree in any scientific field.
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Born 23 February 1924 · Died 7 May 1998 · Q223542
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2002· 2 entries
Awarded Order of Mapungubwe in Gold (2002).
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1998· 1 entry
Died 1998-05-07.
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1990· 2 entries
Won National Medal of Science (1990).
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Was awarded the National Medal of Science
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1979· 2 entries
Awarded the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine — for the development of computer assisted tomography.
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Awarded Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (1979).
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1971· 1 entry
In the UK, taking Cormack's theoretical calculations into a real application
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1944· 1 entry
From the University of Cape Town and his M
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1924· 1 entry
Born 1924-02-23.
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