The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 2003
Awarded on: 2003-10-06
"for their discoveries concerning magnetic resonance imaging"
Affiliations:
- University of Illinois – Urbana, IL, USA
Paul C. Lauterbur
Born: 1929-05-06 in Sidney, OH, USA
Gender: male
Field: American chemist (1929–2007)
Biography
Paul Christian Lauterbur was an American chemist who shared the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 2003 with Peter Mansfield for his work which made the development of magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) possible.