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Allan MacLeod Cormack

1924 - 1998

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Allan MacLeod Cormack (February 23, 1924 – May 7, 1998) was a South African 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), a significant and unusual achievement since Cormack did not hold a doctoral degree in any scientific field. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Allan MacLeod Cormack has received more than 98,405 page views. His biography is available in 55 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 50 in 2019). Allan MacLeod Cormack is the 267th most popular physicist (down from 232nd in 2019), the 21st most popular biography from South Africa (down from 18th in 2019) and the most popular South African Physicist.

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Among PHYSICISTS

Among physicists, Allan MacLeod Cormack ranks 267 out of 851. Before him are John Hasbrouck Van Vleck, Julian Schwinger, John Cockcroft, Pierre-Gilles de Gennes, Daniel Rutherford, and John Vincent Atanasoff. After him are Andrew Huxley, Jagadish Chandra Bose, Jean-François Pilâtre de Rozier, Hugh David Politzer, Johannes Rydberg, and Edmond Becquerel.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1924, Allan MacLeod Cormack ranks 48. Before him are Leon Uris, John Spencer, 8th Earl Spencer, Karmapa, Ed Wood, Luigi Nono, and Roberto Eduardo Viola. After him are Rauf Denktaş, Charlie Munger, Israel Tal, Francisco Macías Nguema, James Black, and Michel Tournier. Among people deceased in 1998, Allan MacLeod Cormack ranks 25. Before him are Frederick Reines, Tameo Ide, Nizar Qabbani, Julien Green, Vasily Arkhipov, and Otto Kretschmer. After him are Linda McCartney, Alfred Schnittke, George H. Hitchings, André Weil, Lúcio Costa, and Kenichi Fukui.

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In South Africa

Among people born in South Africa, Allan MacLeod Cormack ranks 21 out of 454. Before him are Princess Irene of Greece and Denmark (1942), Jacob Zuma (1942), Thabo Mbeki (1942), Paul Kruger (1825), P. W. Botha (1916), and Jody Scheckter (1950). After him are Sydney Brenner (1927), Christiaan Hendrik Persoon (1761), Steve Biko (1946), Glynis Johns (1923), Winnie Madikizela-Mandela (1936), and D. F. Malan (1874).

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Among PHYSICISTS In South Africa

Among physicists born in South Africa, Allan MacLeod Cormack ranks 1. After him are Stanley Mandelstam (1928), George F. R. Ellis (1939), and Neil Turok (1958).

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