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Postcard showing an enlargement of the 97 pence postage stamp in the Medical breakthroughs series featuring a computed tomography scan through the torso on a black background." Issued by Royal Mail on 16 September 2010.

Stamp card series (Royal Mail Group)

Stamp card series / Royal Mail Group

Medical breakthroughs

History of medicine ephemera. Box 4.

1 sheet : color illustrations ; 11 x 15 cm.

Computed tomography scanner invented by Sir Godfrey Hounsfield, 1971 : 97.

Computed tomography : a practical invention / by Nicholas A. Rees.

Presentation pack of 6 postage stamps issued by the Royal Mail Group Ltd. on Thursday, 16 September 2010. It has all six stamps featuring a hip joint replacement (Sir John Charnley, 1962), artificial lens implant in the eye (Sir Harold Ridley, 1949), malaria parasite transmitted by mosquitoes (Sir Ronald Ross, 1897), computed tomography scanner image (Sir Godfrey Hounsfield, 1971), heart-regulating beta blockers (Sir James Black, 1962) and antibiotic properties of penicillin (Sir Alexander Fleming, 1928) - supplied by Wellcome Images.

1 folded sheet : color illustrations ; 38 cm (folded to 12 x 22 cm) + (6 postage stamps).

Medical breakthroughs : Royal Mail mint stamps : / Royal Mail.

Imagining the Elephant is a biography of Allan MacLeod Cormack, a physicist who was awarded the Nobel Prize for Medicine in 1979 for his pioneering contributions to the development of the computer-assisted tomography (CAT) scanner, an honour he shared with Godfrey Hounsfield. This book celebrates the life and work of a modest genius who was also a dedicated family man. It starts with his ancestral roots in the north of Scotland, and then chronicles his birth and early years in South Africa, his education at the University of Cape Town (UCT) and Cambridge University, and his subsequent academic appointments at UCT and Tufts University in Boston, USA. It details his discovery of the problem at Cape Town in 1956, traces his scientific footsteps all the way to Stockholm in December 1979, and then extends the odyssey to his pursuits beyond the Nobel Prize.

xviii, 304 pages : illustrations, maps, portraits ; 23 cm

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