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Paul Lauterbur
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American chemist (1929–2007)
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Paul Christian Lauterbur (1929–2007) was an American chemist, physicist, and biophysicist. He served as a professor at the University of Illinois Urbana–Champaign, the University of Illinois Chicago, and Stony Brook University. His primary field of work included chemistry and radiology, with magnetic resonance imaging recognized as his notable work. He authored the text *Principles of Magnetic Resonance Imaging*.
Lauterbur received the National Medal of Technology and Innovation, the Lasker-DeBakey Clinical Medical Research Award, the Canada Gairdner International Award, and the IEEE Medal of Honor. He was a member of the German Academy of Sciences Leopoldina, the National Academy of Sciences, the American Association for the Advancement of Science, and the American Physical Society. He was educated at the University of Pittsburgh and Case Western Reserve University. He died of kidney disease in Urbana.
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Top works
- Principles of Magnetic Resonance Imaging
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Nobel Prize
- The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine2003
“for their discoveries concerning magnetic resonance imaging”
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- human
- Given name
- Paul
- Gender
- male
- Citizenship
- United States
- Place of birth
- Sidney
- Place of death
- Urbana
- Occupation
- researcher
- Languages spoken
- English language
- Religion
- atheism
- Notable work
- magnetic resonance imaging
- Field of work
- radiology
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- Paul Lauterbur 2003 cropped.jpg
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- Paul Lauterbur
- date of birth
- 1929-05-06
- date of death
- 2007-03-27
- member of
- American Physical Society
- Erdős number
- 8
- name in native language
- Paul Christian Lauterbur
- cause of death
- kidney disease
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- manner of death
- natural causes
- interested in
- chemistry
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Encyclopedic overview
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 Stony Brook University 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 Dawson at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign for 22 years until his death in Urbana. He and Dawson established the Biomedical Magnetic Resonance Laboratory (BMRL) there. 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.
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