Raymond Vahan Damadian

Raymond Vahan Damadian ( born March 16, 1936 in Forest Hills ( according to other sources in Melville ), New York) is an American physician of Armenian descent and co-inventor of magnetic resonance imaging ( MRI), still called magnetic resonance imaging, a medical procedure, with the cancer can be detected on living people.

Damadian discovered that the relaxation times are different in diseased and healthy tissue. He also developed the concept of whole-body scans for the human body. He led such a July 3, 1977 for the first time. His invention, for which he received a patent in 1974, but only included a non-image cancer detection and was later superseded by other methods. When Paul Lauterbur and Peter Mansfield 2003, the Nobel Prize for their contributions to magnetic resonance imaging with pictorial representation, Damadian was passed over what a long-lasting controversy triggered. In various newspapers Damadian tried unsuccessfully with full-page ads to retune the Nobel Committee.

Damadian received other honors for his invention:

• National Medal of Technology 1988
• He was inducted into the American National Inventors Hall of Fame 1989
• Lemelson -MIT Prize in 2001
• Bower Award in Business Leadership from the Franklin Institute in Philadelphia
• Innovation Award in Bioscience from The Economist in September 2003
• " Knights of Vartan " - " Man of the Year " 2003

Since 1978, Damadian president of the company he founded FONAR, a manufacturer of MRI equipment.

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• James Mattson and Merrill Simon: The Pioneers of NMR and Magnetic Resonance in Medicine: The Story of MRI. Jericho & New York: Bar - Ilan University Press, 1996, ISBN 0-9619243-1-4. .
• Donald P. Hollis: Abusing Cancer Science: The Truth About NMR and Cancer, Chehalis, WA: Strawberry Fields Press, 1987 ISBN 0-942033-15-9. .