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Allan Cormack, Tufts physicist, co-inventor of CAT scan; at 74
; Allan MacLeod Cormack, a "modest genius" whose "hobby" of research...his home in Winchester. He was 74. Mr. Cormack was a professor of physics at Tufts University...Hounsfield, a British medical researcher, Mr. Cormack said he conducted his research as a...
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Allan Cormack, Nobel scientist
; 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...
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Obituary: Professor Allan Cormack
; ...ray was being wasted. In 1956, Cormack went to Harvard University on sabbatical...at the Harvard cyclotron. When Cormack realized that tomography, used...Having solved the basic problem, Cormack had little interest in the engineering...for the first time in Stockholm. Cormack was a modest man who ...
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NEIGHBORS BASKING IN NOBEL GLORY
; ...first Nobel laureate in the neighborhood. In 1979, Allan MacLeod Cormack, who lived three blocks away, won the Nobel for Medicine...tomography, which led to the development of the CAT scan. Cormack died in 1998. Schrock was born in Indiana, grew up...
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Inveraray hope to be at home at taynuilt
; ...Division game. Camanachd Association fixtures manager Allan Macleod said: "Inveraray are hoping they can use Taynuilt as...Charleston Academy from Inverness with their Connor Cormack receiving the player of the tournament award. Twelve...
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The evolution of CT technology and its application
; ...working for the company EMI. Sir Godfrey later (1979) shared the Nobel Prize for Physiology and Medicine with Allan MacLeod Cormack for their work in this field. There were many variations in the basic design scheme of the earlier scanners but...
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Reid's tonic lifts gloom.(Sport)
; ...Division game of the day. Morton manager Allan McGraw prides himself on providing line-u...on the head from assistant boss Peter Cormack as he trooped off the field. But Partick...more positive than that. Manager Murdo MacLeod yet again was clearly shown that his side...
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THE BEST THINGS IN LIFE ARE 3; Magic 3s golf competition.(Sport)
; ...Smith, Harburn; John Black, Hayston; Allan Davidson, Windyhill; John Donaldson...East Kilbride. D MacDonald, Ardeer; H Cormack, Wick; Eric Allan, Loudoun Gowf; B Grieve, Hayston; C Nicholl...Dullatur; N Reid, Irvine Ravenspark; I MacLeod, Clydebank and District; D Stewart, Brechin...
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Farmers served up scientific treat in quest for the perfect lamb chop
; ...animals earlier this year. It was only in 1979 that Dr Allan MacLeod Cormack, a Scottish exile, was awarded the Nobel Prize for...hospitals throughout the world. The all-body scanner that Cormack perfected revolutionised the ability of doctors to...
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Modern imaging techniques driven by past pioneers
; ...of CT, or computerized axial tomography (CAT scan). Allan MacLeod Cormack (1924-1978), an American who worked at Tufts University...an electrical engineer working independently from Cormack, developed a computer that could analyze x-ray absorption...
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