Nobel Prize Recipient. Paul C. Lauterbur gained recognition for receiving the 2003 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine with Sir Peter Mansfield. According to the Nobel Prize committee, the two men received the coveted award "for their discoveries concerning magnetic resonance imaging". Born to parents of German ancestry, he graduated with a B.S. in chemistry from what is now Case Western Reserve University. After graduation, he held positions at Army Chemical Center in Maryland and Mellon Institute in Pittsburgh. He pursued graduate studies in chemistry at the University of Pittsburgh, earning his PhD in 1962. He was a professor at Stony Brook University from 1963 until 1985, where he conducted his research for the development of the MRI. The 1952 Nobel Prize in Physics, which was awarded to Felix Bloch and Edward Purcell for the development of nuclear magnetic resonance, the scientific principle behind MRI. However, it would be decades of research before the MRI was fully developed. He is known as "the father of MRI." In 1985 he became a professor along at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign for 22 years until his death from kidney failure.
Nobel Prize Recipient. Paul C. Lauterbur gained recognition for receiving the 2003 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine with Sir Peter Mansfield. According to the Nobel Prize committee, the two men received the coveted award "for their discoveries concerning magnetic resonance imaging". Born to parents of German ancestry, he graduated with a B.S. in chemistry from what is now Case Western Reserve University. After graduation, he held positions at Army Chemical Center in Maryland and Mellon Institute in Pittsburgh. He pursued graduate studies in chemistry at the University of Pittsburgh, earning his PhD in 1962. He was a professor at Stony Brook University from 1963 until 1985, where he conducted his research for the development of the MRI. The 1952 Nobel Prize in Physics, which was awarded to Felix Bloch and Edward Purcell for the development of nuclear magnetic resonance, the scientific principle behind MRI. However, it would be decades of research before the MRI was fully developed. He is known as "the father of MRI." In 1985 he became a professor along at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign for 22 years until his death from kidney failure.
Bio by: John "J-Cat" Griffith
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