Allan Cormack, Nobel scientist

The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel | May 11, 1998 | Copyright

Allan MacLeod Cormack, a Nobel Prize-winning scientist, died Thursday of cancer. He was 74.

Cormack, a physicist who taught at Tufts University in Medford until his retirement in ...

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