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4. I don't know his title other than department head when I met him
Mon Oct 2, 2023, 08:12 PM
Oct 2023

but I want to mention Alan Cormack, physicist at Tufts University who

with Godfrey Hounsfield, was awarded the 1979 Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine for his work in developing the powerful new diagnostic technique of computerized axial tomography (CAT). Cormack was unusual in the field of Nobel laureates because he never earned a doctorate degree in medicine or any other field of science.
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https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7900806/
THE MAN WITH THE SOLUTION
Computerised axial tomography (CAT), the ubiquitous CAT or computed tomography (CT) scan, was a landmark discovery that allowed clinicians to view the interior of the human body in three dimensions without using invasive means. The man with the solution was Allan MacLeod Cormack, a physicist with neither a Doctor of Philosophy nor Doctor of Medicine, who deservedly shared the 1979 Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine for his discovery of CT.


How exciting for Dr. Katalin Karikó, and for my own physics advisor Alan Cormack, who won a Nobel without a PhD.

I want to emphasize that this not to diminish her wonderful accomplishment, but to share the story of another who broke a barrier. We should all strive to do break norms that hold us back.

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