Physicist wins Nobel in Medicine

The 2003 Nobel Prize for Medicine has been awarded to Paul C. Lauterbur,a physical chemist, and Sir Peter Mansfield, a physicist, for their contributions to magnetic resonance imaging(MRI). See PC Lauterbur, “Image formation by induced local interactions: Examples employing nuclear magnetic resonance,” Nature 242, 190-191(1973) and P Mansfield, “Multiplanar image formation using NMR spin echoes”, J. Phys C: Solid State Physics 10, L55-L58(1977).

Students who have taken our Physics of Medical Imaging class are well familiar with these men and their work.

For more, see http://www.news.uiuc.edu/news/03/1006nobel.html.

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