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" Imagining the elephant : "
Christopher L. Vaughan
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BL
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692009
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b514198
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| Main Entry
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Vaughan, Christopher L
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| Title & Author
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Imagining the elephant : : a biography of Allan MacLeod Cormack /\ Christopher L. Vaughan
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| Publication Statement
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London :: Imperial College Press,, [2008]
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Hackensack, NJ :: distributed by World Scientific Pub. Company,, [2008]
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, ©2008
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xviii, 304 pages :: illustrations, portraits ;; 24 cm
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1860949886
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: 9781860949883
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 259- 288) and index
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| Abstract
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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 honour he shared with Godfrey Hounsfield. This book celebrates the life and work of a modest genius who was also a dedicated family man. It starts with his ancestral roots in the 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
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Cormack, Allan Macleod,1924-1998
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Cormack, Allan Macleod,1924-1998
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Nobel Prize winners-- South Africa, Biography
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Physicists-- South Africa, Biography
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Physics, Biography
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Tomography Scanners, X-Ray Computed-- history
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| Dewey Classification
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530.092
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QC16.C69V38 2008
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2008 K-153
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WZ 100C811V 2008
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| Parallel Title
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Allen MacLeod Cormack
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