Paul Lauterbur

Paul Christian Lauterbur ( born May 6, 1929 in Sidney, Ohio; † 27 March 2007 in Urbana, Illinois ) was an American chemist. He is regarded as the inventor of magnetic resonance imaging. In 2003 he was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine.

Life

He studied chemistry in Cleveland and completed his doctorate at the University of Pittsburgh in Pennsylvania. 1969 to 1985 he was professor of chemistry and radiology at the State University of New York at Stony Brook University. From 1985 to 1990 he worked as a professor at the College of Medicine of the University of Illinois in Urbana. Since 1985, he also served as director of the Biomedical Magnetic Resonance Laboratory.

Lauterbur was, among others, Albert Lasker Award for the Clinical Medical Research (1984 ), the Charles F. Kettering Prize from the General Motors Cancer Research Foundation (1985 ), a Gairdner Foundation International Award (1985 ), the X-ray plate (1987 ) the European Magnetic Resonance Award ( 1986), the Bower Award and prize for Achievement in Science ( 1991), the Dickson prize in Science ( 1992), the Kyoto Prize (1994 ) and the Technology Award of the Eduard Rhein Foundation (2003) excellent and was a member since 1992 of the German Academy of Sciences Leopoldina.

In 2003 he received together with Sir Peter Mansfield received the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for his work on magnetic resonance imaging.