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Allan MacLeod Cormack

1924 - 1998

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Allan MacLeod Cormack (February 23, 1924 – May 7, 1998) was a South African and American physicist, academic, and Nobel laureate. He was Professor of Physics at Tufts University and won the 1979 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (along with Godfrey Hounsfield) for his work on X-ray computed tomography (CT), a significant and unusual achievement since Cormack did not hold a doctoral degree in any scientific field. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Allan MacLeod Cormack is the 85th most popular physicist (up from 268th in 2019), the 4th most popular biography from South Africa (up from 21st in 2019) and the most popular South African Physicist.

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Among PHYSICISTS

Among physicists, Allan MacLeod Cormack ranks 85 out of 851. Before him are Christian Doppler, Ernst Mach, Manne Siegbahn, Luis Walter Alvarez, Victor Francis Hess, and Gustaf Dalén. After him are Johannes Stark, Gustav Ludwig Hertz, Rudolf Clausius, Robert Andrews Millikan, Georg Bednorz, and C. F. Powell.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1924, Allan MacLeod Cormack ranks 11. Before him are Marcello Mastroianni, Muhammad Zia-ul-Haq, Abdullah of Saudi Arabia, Kim Dae-jung, Truman Capote, and Robert Mugabe. After him are Eli Cohen, James Black, Süleyman Demirel, Khamtai Siphandon, Jean-François Lyotard, and Benoit Mandelbrot. Among people deceased in 1998, Allan MacLeod Cormack ranks 7. Before him are Pol Pot, Akira Kurosawa, Frank Sinatra, Halldór Laxness, Alan Hodgkin, and Jean Marais. After him are Vasily Arkhipov, Todor Zhivkov, Ernst Jünger, Vladimir Prelog, Carlos Castaneda, and Octavio Paz.

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In South Africa

Among people born in South Africa, Allan MacLeod Cormack ranks 4 out of 454. Before him are J. R. R. Tolkien (1892), Nelson Mandela (1918), and Elon Musk (1971). After him are J. M. Coetzee (1940), Nadine Gordimer (1923), Sarah Baartman (1788), F. W. de Klerk (1936), Desmond Tutu (1931), Miriam Makeba (1932), Shaka (1787), and Christiaan Barnard (1922).

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Among PHYSICISTS In South Africa

Among physicists born in South Africa, Allan MacLeod Cormack ranks 1. After him are George F. R. Ellis (1939), Stanley Mandelstam (1928), and Neil Turok (1958).

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