Paul Lauterbur

Paul Christian Lauterbur was an American chemist, born in 1929, who shared the 2003 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine with Peter Mansfield for work that made magnetic resonance imaging possible. He took a chemistry degree at the Case Institute of Technology, now part of Case Western Reserve University, and was a professor at Stony Brook University from 1963 to 1985, where he carried out his MRI research. In 1985 he became a professor at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, where he stayed for 22 years until his death and, with his wife Joan Dawson, established the Biomedical Magnetic Resonance Laboratory. He held appointments in chemistry, bioengineering, biophysics and medicine.