Imagining the elephant : a biography of Allan MacLeod Cormack /
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...
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| 505 | 0 | |a 1. From John O'Groats to Jo'burg -- 2. On the slopes of table mountain -- 3. Physics and friends at Cambridge -- 4. Return to the fairest cape -- 5. A new beginning in Boston -- 6. Finding Radon and his transform -- 7. On the road to Stockholm -- 8. Citizen of the world -- 9. At home in Massachusetts. | |
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