Cormack
Allan MacLeod [muh-kloud] /məˈklaʊd/ (Show IPA), 1924–98, U.S. physicist and biophysicist, born in South Africa: Nobel Prize 1979.
Historical Examples
Mr. Cormack did not succeed in the main object he had in view, yet was his trouble anything but profitless.
Lecture On The Aborigines Of Newfoundland Joseph Noad
Mrs. Cormack stood and stared, now at Maggie, and now at the bundle that lay in her own arms.
Salted With Fire George MacDonald
Maggie retired with Mistress Cormack; and when the soutar joined them, he said never a word about the discomfited gossip.
Salted With Fire George MacDonald
Listen to the words of one who loves thee—the words of Cormack—of the bard.
Bentley’s Miscellany, Volume II Various
That’s the burden, or the quoir, as father Cormack calls it;—the o’erword, like.
The Three Perils of Man, Vol. 3 (of 3) James Hogg
The first was Cormack, who named it a long time ago, and the second Mr. Howley, who was there in 1875.
Life of Frederick Courtenay Selous, D.S.O. J.G. Millais
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