Imagining the Elephant: A Biography of Allan MacLeod Cormack is a 2008 biography of physicist and Nobel laureate Allan MacLeod Cormack written by biomedical engineer and author Christopher Kit Vaughan and published by Imperial College Press.[1] The book won the University of Cape Town Book Award in 2010,[2] an honour shared with Nobel laureate J.M. Coetzee who won the award in 1984 for Waiting for the Barbarians.[3]
Cormack shared the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1979 with Godfrey Hounsfield “for the development of computer assisted tomography.” [4] The book's title is inspired by the parable of six blind men and an elephant, in which the men, by approaching the animal from different angles, imagine it to be an elephant. This is analogous to computed tomography – or CT scan – in which a series of two-dimensional X-rays taken from different angles are used to construct a three-dimensional image of the object.
^Vaughan, Christopher (2008). "Imagining the Elephant: A Biography of Allan MacLeod Cormack". Imperial College Press. London. doi:10.1142/p539.
^"Medical biography picks up UCT book award". 29 March 2010.
^"UCT Book Award".
^"The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 1979".
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