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...Cormack said that he and Hounsfield have never met and did not collaborate on the project. "I'm not sure if he even read my articles," he added...
...Cormack, who was born in South Africa in 1924, is now an American citizen. He came to the United States in 1956 to work at Harvard's cyclotron laboratory as a research fellow with Norman F. Ramsey, Higgins Professor of Physics...
...Cormack returned to Harvard's cyclotron in 1963 to carry out one of the experiments which lead to the development of the CAT scanning process, because only Harvard could supply the cobalt 60 needed to confirm his theories...
Andreas M. Koehler, assistant director of the cyclotron, said yesterday Cormack is still a frequent visitor to the laboratory. "We were all absolutely delighted when we heard of his award," Koehler said...
...Cormack's award is unusual in two respects: he has never received a doctorate in any scientific field and he is primarily concerned not with medicine but with particle physics. He described his work on the CAT scanner as "a hobby...