Paul Lauterbur
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| Born |
May 6, 1929 Sidney, Ohio |
| Died | March 27, 2007 (aged 77) Urbana, Illinois |
| Residence | United States |
| Institutions |
State University of New York at Stony Brook University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Mellon Institute of Industrial Research (part of today's Carnegie Mellon University) |
| Alma mater |
Case Western Reserve University (B.S.), University of Pittsburgh (Ph.D.) |
| Known for | Magnetic Resonance Imaging |
| Notable awards | Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (2003) Kyoto Prize (1994) Bower Award (1990) IEEE Medal of Honor (1987) National Medal of Science (1987) Harvey Prize (1986) Potts Medal (1983) |
Paul Christian Lauterbur (May 6, 1929 – March 27, 2007) 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.
Lauterbur was a professor at the State University of New York at Stony Brook from 1963 until 1985 where he conducted his research for the development of the MRI. In 1985 he became a professor along with his wife Joan at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign for 22 years until his death in Urbana. He never stopped working with undergraduates on research, and he served as a professor of chemistry, with appointments in bioengineering, biophysics, the College of Medicine at Urbana-Champaign and computational biology at the Center for Advanced Study.
Lauterbur was of Luxembourgish ancestry. Born and raised in Sidney, Ohio, Lauterbur graduated from Sidney High School, where a new Chemistry, Physics, and Biology wing was dedicated in his honor. He did his undergraduate work at Case Institute of Technology in Cleveland, which is now known as Case Western Reserve University. As a teenager, he built his own laboratory in the basement of his parents' house. His chemistry teacher at school understood that he enjoyed experimenting on his own, so the teacher allowed him to do his own experiments at the back of class. When he was drafted into the Army in the 1950s, his superiors allowed him to spend his time working on an early nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) machine; he had published four scientific papers by the time he left the Army. Paul became an atheist later on.
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