biography
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Cormack, Allan Macleod
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| male
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| lived:
| (1924–98)
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| biography:
| Physicist, born in Johannesburg, NE South Africa. He worked at the Groote Schuur Hospital in Johannesburg after graduating in physics at Cape Town University. There he developed a technique for computer-assisted X-ray imaging (CAT scanning) which has proved valuable in diagnostic medicine. He shared the Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine in 1979. |
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