Allan MacLeod Cormack

thumb|A._M._Cormack Allan MacLeod Cormack (February 23, 1924 – May 7, 1998) was a South African-born American physicist who won the 1979 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (along with Godfrey Hounsfield) for his work on x-ray computed tomography (CT). Quotes There is also hope that even in these days of increasing specialization there is a unity in the human experience. Banquet speech, The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 1979 my interests outside my academic work were debating, tennis, and to a lesser extent, acting. I became intensely interested in astronomy and devoured the popular works of astronomers such as Sir Arthur Eddington and Sir James Jeans, from which I learnt that a knowledge of mathematics and physics was essential to the pursuit of astronomy. This increased my fondness for those subjects. Since my first discussions of ecological problems with Professor John Day around 1950 and since reading Konrad Lorenz's “King Solomon's Ring,” I have become increasingly interested in the study of animals for what they might teach us about man, and the study of man as an animal. I have become increasingly disenchanted with what the thinkers of the so-called Age of Enlightenment tell us about the nature of man, and with what the formal religions and doctrinaire political theorists tell us about the same subject. External links Category:Physicists from the United States Category:Physicists from South Africa Category:People from Johannesburg Category:1924 births Category:1998 deaths Category:Inventors Category:National Medal of Science laureates Category:University of Cambridge alumni Category:Harvard University faculty Category: People from South Africa