Paul C. Lauterbur Ph.D.
Paul C. Lauterbur Ph.D.
The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 2003
Nobel Co-recipient Sir Peter Mansfield
The President’s National Medal of Science – Physical Sciences 1987
The National Medal of Technology and Innovation 1988
Name: Paul Christian Lauaterbur
Birth: 6 May 1929, Sidney, OH, USA
Death: 27 March 2007, Urbana, IL, USA
Institution: University of Illinois, Urbana, IL, USA
Award: “for their discoveries concerning magnetic resonance imaging”
Subject: Diagnostic imaging
Portion of Cash: 1/2
“Every great idea in history has the red stamp of rejection on its face. If you scratch any innovation’s surface, you’ll find the scars: they’ve been roughed up and thrashed around by the masses and the leading minds before they made it into your life.”
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Paul Lauterbur, A biographical Memoir by Joan Dawson, wife. National Academy of Sciences. 20 pages
Wife Joan Dawson, Physiologist and Biophysicist: Life is so strange. It was because of the tortured history of NMR Specialties that Paul happened to be on hand to witness the experiments that raised in his mind the possibility of Magnetic Resonance Imaging. Paul was always squeamish about everything medical and biological, everything that had to do with blood and other tissues. He was loath to go to doctors and totally intimidated by the idea that he might have to have an injection or to have blood drawn. So finding a way to do NMR studies noninvasively took on a special meaning for him.
Lauterbur died in March 2007 of kidney disease at his home in Urbana, Illinois. University of Illinois Chancellor Richard Herman said, “Paul’s influence is felt around the world every day, every time an MRI saves the life of a daughter or a son, a mother or a father.”
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