Imagining the Elephant - A Biography of Allan MacLeod Cormack

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.He was 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.

Softcover. English. University of Cape Town Press. 2008. ISBN: 1919895086. 304 pp. Good, with light edgewear. Book No: 2503619