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The Nobel Prize is an annual award given in recognition of academic and cultural advancements. It was created by Alfred Nobel,when he read his own obituary that referred to him as the merchant of death. The obituary was supposed to be for his brother, but Alfred was so ashamed of what he would be remember as he left his fortune to “those who confer the "greatest benefit on mankind"” in his will in 1895.(Full) Chemist Paul Lauterbur and Physicist Peter Manfield were awarded the 2003 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for their discoveries and developments with Magnetic Resonance Imaging, or MRI,(The) which has given us a whole new way to analyze certain diseases and provide an accurate display of the human body’s anatomy(Wix).
Paul Lauterbur was born on May 6, 1929 in Sidney, Ohio. Lauterbur was a chemist and a professor at the State University of New York at Stony Brook. Here, at Stony Brook, was where most of his research for the development of the MRI was conducted. He credits the idea of the MRI to a brainstorm, where the first model of an MRI was doodled onto a napkin. The scientific principle behind the MRI is the nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR). However the NMR was only used for studying the chemical structure of substances. It wasn't until decades later with Lauterbur’s and Mansfield’s developments in the 1970s, …show more content…

He would change the settings to accompany his work but leave them as he found them for the other chemists.(Paul) The first pictures he took under this NMR machine was of a 4 mm clam, green peppers, and two test tubes of heavy water within a beaker of ordinary water. The experiment with the test tuebs of water went on to be very important given the human body consists mostly of water, and at the time no other imaging technique could determine the difference. He then went on to submit these papers to Nature but his paper was rejected both

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