Allan MacLeod Cormack

A physicist, he probably saw the world in mathematical equations but was too polite to correct you when you got your basic arithmetic wrong. Humble, brilliant, and a little bit of a mad scientist (in the best way), he basically revolutionised medical imaging with CT scans.

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23 February 1924
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Physicist
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South Africa – United States

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He was a delightfully quirky genius – like the quiet guy at a party who suddenly drops a mind-blowing fact about X-rays and then goes back to sipping his drink.

#whatif

...there were a Nobel Prize
for "accidentally being amazing"?


He would’ve won that too.🏆