Allan Cormack House (Office)
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Building Name
Allan Cormack House (Office)
Alternative Title
2 Rhodes Ave Office
Description
Allan MacLeod Cormack (February 23, 1924 – May 7, 1998) was a South African-born American physicist who won the 1979 Nobel Prize in Physiology/Medicine (along with Godfrey Hounsfield) for his work on X-ray computed tomography (CT). Cormack received his B.Sc. in physics in 1944 from the University of Cape Town and his M.Sc. in crystallography in 1945 from the same institution. He was a research student at Cambridge University from 1947–50. He returned to the University of Cape Town in early 1950 to lecture. Following a sabbatical at Harvard in 1955-56, Cormack became a professor at Tufts University in the fall of 1956-64. Although he was mainly working on particle physics, Cormack's side interest in x-ray technology led him to develop the theoretical underpinnings of CT scanning. This work was initiated at the University of Cape Town and Groote Schuur Hospital in early 1956 and continued briefly in mid-1957 after Cormack returned from his sabbatical. His results were subsequently published in two papers in the Journal of Applied Physics in 1963 and 1964. These papers generated little interest until Hounsfield and colleagues built the first CT scanner in 1972, taking Cormack's theoretical calculations into a real application. For their independent efforts, Cormack and Hounsfield shared the 1979 Nobel Prize in Physiology/Medicine. He was member of the International Academy of Science. In 1990, he was awarded the National Medal of Science. He was posthumously awarded the Order of Mapungubwe in 2002 for outstanding achievements as a scientist and for co-inventing the CT
scanner. With UCT as his base, his contribution to UCT is recognised in Allan Cormack House. The Nobel Foundation 1979. NNDB Mapper. http://www.nndb.com/people/498/000131105/.
scanner. With UCT as his base, his contribution to UCT is recognised in Allan Cormack House. The Nobel Foundation 1979. NNDB Mapper. http://www.nndb.com/people/498/000131105/.
Address
2 Rhodes avenue,Mowbray
Campus
Lower
Latitude
-33.9496775
Longitude
18.4706992
Building Number
543
Building Code
5430
status
Owned
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