Cormack, Allan Macleod, 1924-1998
Allan Cormack papers, 1909-1997.
Includes papers documenting Allan Cormack's professional life, beginning with his early career at the University of Cape Town. The bulk of the material originates from Cormack's years as Professor of physics at Tufts. The material includes correspondence; notes and calculations; experimental data; reports and manuscripts; lectures; course material; overhead transparencies; photographs; and video footage of a television interview with Cormack. These items relate to Cormack's research in particle and medical physics and applied mathematics, as well as other aspects of his physics career, such as administrative duties and tenure review. Also recorded are Cormack's activities relating to the Nobel Prize and the Nobel Foundation.
BS, MS, University of Cape Town. Research Associate, Cavendish Laboratory; Lecturer on nuclear physics, University of Cape Town (1950); Research Associate, Harvard University; various positions including Professor and Chairman of the Physics Department, Tufts University (1968-1976). Research in nuclear and particle physics. Nobel prize, physiology/medicine, 1968.
Cormack, Allan Macleod, 1924-1998
Tufts University. Department of Physics and Astronomy
University of Cape Town.
Medical physics -- Research.
Nobel Prizes.
Particles (Nuclear physics) -- Research. aip
Physics -- Administration.
AIP-ICOS
Tufts University. Tisch Library. Archives and Special Collections. Medford, MA 02155, USA