"Paul C Lauterbur (1929-2007) is remembered as one of the co-developers of MRI, for which he was co-awarded the Nobel Prize for Medicine or Physiology in 2003, with Peter Mansfield."
"Paul Christian Lauterbur was born on 6 May 1929 in Sidney, Ohio.In 1951 he graduated with a bachelor of science degree in chemistry from Case Institute of Technology in Cleveland, Ohio (now part of Case Western Reserve University). Subsequently he was a Research Associate at the Mellon Institute, Pittsburgh from 1951 to 1953 where he performed research in organosilicon chemistry. In 1953 he was drafted (during the Korean War) into the Army Chemical Centre Laboratories , where he remained until 1955; here he studied chemical warfare. Moreover he also established a research programme into nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) spectroscopy. Thenceforth he returned to the Mellon Institute, graduating with PhD in chemistry from the University of Pittsburgh in 1962."
"Lauterbur married twice. His first marriage to Rose Mary Caputo, ended in divorce. His second wife was Joan Dawson, a professor of physiology, also at the State University of New York. He had three children: Daniel and Sharyn from his first marriage, and a daughter, Elise from his second marriage 1."
"Albert Lasker Clinical Research Award (1984) 1"
"Michelson-Morley Award (1984) 6"
"Honorary doctorate from the University of Liege in Belgium"
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"Development of MRI"
"Paul Christian Lauterbur was born on 6 May 1929 in Sidney, Ohio.In 1951 he graduated with a bachelor of science degree in chemistry from Case Institute of Technology in Cleveland, Ohio (now part of Case Western Reserve University). Subsequently he was a Research Associate at the Mellon Institute, Pittsburgh from 1951 to 1953 where he performed research in organosilicon chemistry. In 1953 he was drafted (during the Korean War) into the Army Chemical Centre Laboratories , where he remained until 1955; here he studied chemical warfare. Moreover he also established a research programme into nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) spectroscopy. Thenceforth he returned to the Mellon Institute, graduating with PhD in chemistry from the University of Pittsburgh in 1962."
"In 1963 he joined the State University of New York (SUNY), in Stony Brook, with tenure in the Departments of Chemistry and Radiology, becoming a full professor in 1984. His main research focus was NMR spectroscopy, analysing the composition of molecular structures, solids and liquids."