Obituary: Allan Cormack

The Most Influential Scientists in the Development of Medical Informatics (4): Allan Cormack

CORMACK ALLAN (1924-1998) Allan MacLeod Cormack (February 23, 1924 – May 7, 1998) was born in Johannesburg, South Africa, the son of George and Amelia, a civil service engineer and a teacher respectively, who had emigrated from Scotland to South Africa prior to World War I (1). At the University of Cape Town, South Africa, Cormack chose the field of engineering, but two years later he changed h...

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Mrs. Meiklejohn, of St. Paul's, Upper Maze M, Ston January 29th. Her life was spent for the weitare ? many parents could testify to the devotion w i ^ defective children, and She was the first to realise the special _n country. For many years she she opened the first home for such children in defective children, and of was the Principal of this home, and of a home 10 wQmen> another home for dif...

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Donkin was educated at Blackheath Proprietary School and thence went to Queen's College, Oxford, as an open scholar, graduating in the first class of the Classical Tripos. He graduated as M.B., Oxon, in 1873, and became a F.R.C.P. Lon. in 1880, and during his active professional life held many important appointments and was Harveian Orator in 1910. He was physician and lecturer on Medicine at W...

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