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2008-08-02
Title
Imagining The Elephant: A Biography of Allan Macleod Cormack
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ISBN
9781860949883
Book Title
Imagining the Elephant : a Biography of Allan Macleod Cormack
Publisher
Imperial College Press
Item Length
9 in
Publication Year
2008
Format
Hardcover
Language
English
Illustrator
Yes
Item Height
0.9 in
Author
Christopher L. Vaughan
Genre
Science, Biography & Autobiography
Topic
General, Science & Technology
Item Weight
0 Oz
Item Width
6.1 in
Number of Pages
304 Pages
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Publisher
Imperial College Press
ISBN-10
1860949886
ISBN-13
9781860949883
eBay Product ID (ePID)
64470746

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Book Title
Imagining the Elephant : a Biography of Allan Macleod Cormack
Number of Pages
304 Pages
Language
English
Topic
General, Science & Technology
Publication Year
2008
Illustrator
Yes
Genre
Science, Biography & Autobiography
Author
Christopher L. Vaughan
Format
Hardcover

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Item Height
0.9 in
Item Weight
0 Oz
Item Length
9 in
Item Width
6.1 in

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LCCN
2008-431137
Dewey Edition
22
Dewey Decimal
530.092
Synopsis
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.
LC Classification Number
QC16.C69V38 2008

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