Paul Lauterbur
American chemist (1929–2007) / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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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.[1][2]
Paul Lauterbur | |
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Born | Paul Christian Lauterbur (1929-05-06)May 6, 1929 |
Died | March 27, 2007(2007-03-27) (aged 77) |
Occupation | Chemist researcher |
Known for | Making the development of the MRI possible |
Scientific career | |
Thesis | Steric effects on carbon-13 nuclear magnetic resonance spectra of substituted benzene (1962) |
Lauterbur was a professor at Stony Brook University from 1963 until 1985, where he conducted his research for the development of the MRI.[3] 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.[4]