Imagining the elephant : a biography of Allan MacLeod Cormack / Christopher L. Vaughan.
Imagining the elephant : a biography of Allan MacLeod Cormack / Christopher L. Vaughan.
Imagining the elephant : a biography of Allan MacLeod Cormack / Christopher L. Vaughan.
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Lansdowne, South Africa : UCT Press, c2008.
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N530.092/57
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English
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xviii, 304 p. : ill., ports. ; 23 cm.
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Publisher
Lansdowne, South Africa : UCT Press, c2008.
Date Published
c2008.
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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 honour he shared with Godfrey Hounsfield. This book celebrates the life and work of a modest genius who was also a...
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Imagining the elephant : a biography of Allan MacLeod Cormack / Christopher L. Vaughan.
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Published in London by Imperial College Press.
Includes bibliographical references (p. 259- 288) and index.
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c2008.
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N530.092/57
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74VMbmKev0VO
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https://devfeature-collection.sl.nsw.gov.au/record/74VMbmKev0VO
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ISBN
1860949886 (U.K.)
9781919895086 (pbk. : Southern Africa)
1919895086 (pbk. : Southern Africa)
9781860949883 (U.K.)
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530.092
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991000706599702626
