Allan M. Cormack

Nobel Prize lecture

Early Two-Dimensional Reconstruction and Recent Topics Stemming from It

Allan M. Cormack held his Nobel Lecture on 8 December 1979, at Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm. He was presented by Professor Ulf Rudhe, member of the Nobel Committee for Physiology or Medicine.

Early Two-Dimensional Reconstruction and Recent Topics Stemming from It

Allan M. Cormack held his Nobel Lecture on 8 December 1979, at Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm. He was presented by Professor Ulf Rudhe, member of the Nobel Committee for Physiology or Medicine.

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From Nobel Lectures, Physiology or Medicine 1971-1980, Editor Jan Lindsten, World Scientific Publishing Co., Singapore, 1992

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