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Paul Lauterbur

1929 - 2007

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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. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Paul Lauterbur is the 213th most popular chemist (up from 246th in 2019), the 1,217th most popular biography from United States (up from 1,519th in 2019) and the 53rd most popular American Chemist.

Paul Lauterbur was a physician, chemist, and physicist who won the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 2003 for his work in developing the MRI.

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Among CHEMISTS

Among chemists, Paul Lauterbur ranks 213 out of 602. Before him are Karl Barry Sharpless, Alan MacDiarmid, James Dewar, Roald Hoffmann, Johann Wilhelm Ritter, and Nikolay Semyonov. After him are Kenichi Fukui, Geoffrey Wilkinson, Sophia Brahe, Leo Baekeland, Osamu Shimomura, and Giulio Natta.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1929, Paul Lauterbur ranks 65. Before him are Jean Simmons, Bill Evans, Zoltán Czibor, Günter Schabowski, Gudrun Burwitz, and Gerald Edelman. After him are Alfred Moisiu, Bernard Haitink, Yevgeny Primakov, E. O. Wilson, Omar Torrijos, and Violeta Chamorro. Among people deceased in 2007, Paul Lauterbur ranks 38. Before him are Paul Tibbets, Nils Liedholm, Pierre-Gilles de Gennes, Ryszard Kapuściński, Abdul Rahman Arif, and Alan MacDiarmid. After him are Richard Rorty, Stanley Miller, Jane Wyman, Arthur M. Schlesinger Jr., Henri Troyat, and Arawa Kimura.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Paul Lauterbur ranks 1,217 out of 20,380. Before him are Carroll O'Connor (1924), Marco Rubio (1971), Robert Venturi (1925), Linda Hunt (1945), Gerald Edelman (1929), and Mark Milley (1958). After him are John Tate (1925), Bette Midler (1945), Kirstie Alley (1951), Murray Rothbard (1926), Colin Powell (1937), and Roberta Flack (1937).

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Among CHEMISTS In United States

Among chemists born in United States, Paul Lauterbur ranks 53. Before him are Arthur Kornberg (1918), Wallace Carothers (1896), Donald J. Cram (1919), Robert H. Grubbs (1942), Robert F. Furchgott (1916), and Karl Barry Sharpless (1941). After him are Stanley Miller (1930), James B. Conant (1893), Walter Gilbert (1932), Kary Mullis (1944), Richard Smalley (1943), and Carolyn R. Bertozzi (1966).

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