The University of Cape Town in front of Devil's Peak
The University of Cape Town (UCT) is a public university located on the Rhodes Estate on the slopes of Devil's Peak, in Cape Town in the Western Cape province of South Africa. UCT, founded in 1829 as the South African College, is the oldest university in South Africa. The University of Cape Town is currently the highest-ranking African University in both the THES-QS World University Rankings and the Academic Ranking of World Universities by the Shanghai Jiao Tong University. It is the only African university to make it into the top 200 of the THES-QS ranking.
Two MSc graduates and former lecturers of the Physics Department at UCT were honoured with the Nobel Prize. Sir Aaron Klug (who later was elected president of the Royal Society of London) earned the1982 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for crystallographic electron microscopy applied to biologically important nucleic acid protein complexes.
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| AARON KLUG | ALLAN CORMACK |
Allan McLeod Cormack was awarded the 1979 Nobel Prize in Medicine, for the development and testing of an algorithm that led to the development of Computer Assisted Tomography (CAT-scan). Cormack wrote his Nobel prize-winning paper as a lecturer of the University of Cape Town at the age of 39.