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Allan MacLeod Cormack

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Allan MacLeod Cormack
Rayuwa
Haihuwa Johannesburg, 23 ga Faburairu, 1924
ƙasa Tarayyar Amurka
Afirka ta kudu
Mutuwa Winchester (en) Fassara, 7 Mayu 1998
Yanayin mutuwa Sababi na ainihi (Sankara)
Karatu
Makaranta Jami'ar Cape Town
St John's College (en) Fassara
Rondebosch Boys' High School (en) Fassara
Matakin karatu Farfesa
Harsuna Turanci
Sana'a
Sana'a physicist (en) Fassara, biophysicist (en) Fassara da researcher (en) Fassara
Employers Jami'ar Cape Town
University of Cambridge (en) Fassara
Tufts University (en) Fassara
Groote Schuur Hospital (en) Fassara
Kyaututtuka
Mamba American Academy of Arts and Sciences (en) Fassara
American Physical Society (en) Fassara
National Academy of Sciences (en) Fassara
Allan MacLeod Cormack

Allan MacLeod Cormack (Fabrairu 23, 1924 - Mayu 7, 1998) masanin kimiyyar kimiya na Afirka ta Kudu ne wanda ya ci lambar yabo ta Nobel a Physiology ko Medicine a 1979 (tare da Godfrey Hounsfield ) don aikinsa kan X-ray computed tomography (CT), gagarumar nasara kuma sabon abu tunda Cormack bai riƙe digiri na uku a kowane fanni na kimiyya ba. 

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An haifi Cormack a Johannesburg, Afirka ta Kudu. Ya halarci makarantar sakandare ta Rondebosch Boys a Cape Town, inda ya kasance mai himma a cikin muhawara da kungiyoyin wasan tennis. Ya samu B.Sc. a physics a 1944 daga Jami'ar Cape Town da kuma M.Sc. a cikin crystallography a 1945 daga wannan ma'aikata. Ya kasance dalibin digiri na uku a Jami'ar Cambridge daga 1947-49, kuma yayin da yake Cambridge ya sadu da matarsa ta gaba, Barbara Seavey, ɗalibin kimiyyar lissafi na Amurka.

Allan MacLeod Cormack

Bayan ya auri Barbara, ya koma Jami'ar Cape Town a farkon 1950 don karantarwa. Bayan bin sabbatical a Harvard a 1956-57, ma'auratan sun yarda su koma Amurka, kuma Cormack ya zama farfesa a Jami'ar Tufts a cikin kaka na 1957. Cormack ya zama ɗan ƙasa na Amurka a cikin 1966. Ko da yake ya kasance yana aiki ne akan ilimin kimiyyar ɗan adam, sha'awar Cormack game da fasahar x-ray ya sa shi haɓaka ƙa'idodin ka'idar CT scanning. An fara wannan aikin a Jami'ar Cape Town da asibitin Groote Schuur a farkon 1956 kuma ya ci gaba a takaice a tsakiyar 1957 bayan ya dawo daga sabbatical. An buga sakamakonsa daga baya a cikin takardu biyu a cikin Journal of Applied Physics a 1963 da 1964. Waɗannan takaddun sun haifar da ƙarancin sha'awa har Hounsfield da abokan aiki suka gina na'urar daukar hotan takardu ta CT ta farko a cikin 1971, suna ɗaukar lissafin ka'idar Cormack zuwa aikace-aikacen gaske. Don ƙoƙarinsu mai zaman kansa, Cormack da Hounsfield sun raba lambar yabo ta Nobel ta 1979 a cikin ilimin halittar jiki ko magani. Abin lura ne cewa su biyun sun gina nau'in na'ura mai kama da juna ba tare da haɗin gwiwa ba a sassa daban-daban na duniya [3]. Ya kasance memba na Kwalejin Kimiyya ta Duniya, Munich. A cikin 1990, an ba shi lambar yabo ta Kimiyya ta ƙasa .

Cormack ya mutu sakamakon ciwon daji a Winchester, Massachusetts yana da shekaru 74. An ba shi lambar yabo ta Mapungubwe a ranar 10 ga Disamba 2002 don manyan nasarori a matsayin masanin kimiyya da haɗin gwiwar ƙirƙira na'urar daukar hoto ta CT.


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Samfuri:Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine Laureates 1976-2000