Imagining the Elephant is a biography of Allan MacLeod Cormack; a physicist who was awarded the Nobel Prize for Medicine in 1979 for his pioneering contributions to the development of the computer-assisted tomography (Cat) scanner; an honor he shared with Godfrey Hounsfield. A modest genius who was also a dedicated family man; the book is a celebration of Cormack's life and work. It begins with his ancestral roots in the far north of Scotland; and then chronicles his birth and early years in South Africa; his education at the University of Cape Town (Uct) and Cambridge University; and his subsequent academic appointments at Uct and Tufts University in Boston; Usa. It details his discovery of the problem at Cape Town in 1956; traces his scientific footsteps all the way to Stockholm in December 1979; and then extends the odyssey to his pursuits beyond the Nobel Prize.
#18345387 in Books 1990 #File Name: B000TRAD3S475 pages
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