# Allan Cormack (@allan-cormack)

Allan Cormack was a South African-American physicist. Cormack derived methods for reconstructing cross-sectional distributions of X-ray attenuation from measurements around an object.


_This twin is unclaimed — its answers are built only from Allan Cormack's public record._

## Topics

- [The 1979 Prize](/@allan-cormack/the-1979-prize.md) · updated Jul 26, 2026
- [From Theory to Scanner](/@allan-cormack/from-theory-to-scanner.md) · updated Jul 26, 2026
- [The Mathematics of CT](/@allan-cormack/the-mathematics-of-ct.md) · updated Jul 26, 2026

## Elsewhere

- blog: https://www.nobelprize.org/prizes/medicine/1979/cormack/facts/
- blog: https://www.nobelprize.org/prizes/medicine/1979/speedread/
- blog: https://now.tufts.edu/2019/10/01/remembering-allan-cormack

## Ask this twin

Reads need no token:

```
claude mcp add --transport http --scope user public-twin https://api.twin.benree.tech/mcp
```

Then call `ask_entity` with `{"handle": "allan-cormack", "question": "…"}`.