Last Friday, we highlighted the contribution of two South Africans – Jamie Ambrose and Allan Cormack – to the development of computer […]
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CT Turns 50
Fifty years ago on 1 October 1971, “Jamie Ambrose, a consultant radiologist at Atkinson Morley’s Hospital in Wimbledon, south London, made […]
Laugh First, and Then Think
In a few weeks’ time, we learn who will be awarded the Nobel Prizes for 2021. As we have previously […]
DBT vs BCT
Well, it’s the battle of the acronyms – digital breast tomosynthesis (DBT) versus breast computed tomography (BCT) – in the […]
The Rule of Three
The second week in October is when the world’s leading scientists eagerly await a telephone call from Stockholm with life-changing […]
Our Dunkirk Moment
The Battle of Dunkirk, fought between 26 May and 4 June 1940, marked a turning point in World War Two. During […]
Coming Full Circle
On Friday 6 January 1956, Allan Cormack arrived for work at Groote Schuur Hospital, having been appointed as part-time nuclear physicist, spending […]
Celebrating BME@50
Yesterday marked an important milestone for the field of biomedical engineering (BME) in Cape Town as it celebrated its 50th […]
What a Great Idea!
Not too many people know that the world’s first digital laser was invented in South Africa, or that in the 1980s two […]
Anatomy of a Biography
When Allan MacLeod Cormack, joint winner of the Nobel Prize for Medicine in 1979 for “the development of computer assisted tomography” passed […]