Paul Lauterbur

Paul Christian Lauterbur (May 6th 1929 - March 27th 2007) was an American chemist who divided the Nobel Prize of physiology or medicine in 2003 with Peter Mansfield for his work which made possible the development of the Imagerie by magnetic resonance (IRM).

Born with Sidney, in the Ohio, Lauterbur college of Sidney is graduate, where a new wing of chemistry, physics, and biology was devoted in its honor. It prepared a license with the Western Université of Cleveland. Graduate in 1962 of the University of Pittsburgh, it allots the idea of the IRM to a stroke of genius one day in a suburban restaurant car of Pittsburgh, the first model of IRM being griffoné on a napkin. The research which it carried out with the Université of the State of New York with Stony Brook it led to the Nobel Prize. Dr. Lauterbur was professor with the Université of Illinois with Urbana-Champaign until his death.

The Nobel Prize of physics in 1952, which went to Felix Bloch and Edward Mills Purcell, was for the development of the nuclear Magnetic resonance (NMR), the scientific principle of the IRM. However, magnetic resonance was employed mainly to study the chemical structure of the substances. Lauterbur is credited for the idea to create gradients in the magnetic field to make it possible to determine the origin of the radio waves emitted by the cores of the studied object. This space information makes it possible to build two-dimensional images. Its original machine IRM is located at the building of chemistry on the campus of the university of the State of New York.

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prizes winner of the Nobel Prize of medicine and physiology 2003
Autobiography on the site of the foundation Nobel

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