From the category archives:

People

Paul Lauterbur dies at age 77

by Aziz on March 29, 2007

in People

The father of Magnetic Resonance Imaging passed away on Tuesday:
Physicist Paul C. Lauterbur, who received a 2003 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for giving physicians the ability to look inside the human body without using harmful radiation, died Tuesday at his home in Urbana, Ill.
He was 77 and had been suffering from kidney disease.

{ 1 comment }

Lauterbur inducted into Inventor’s Hall of Fame

by Aziz on February 11, 2007

in People

from the AP wire: Significant inventors honored Thursday on Capitol Hill
WASHINGTON (AP) — Inventors of the MRI, the Ethernet, the LP record and a popular weedkiller are among 18 people picked for induction into the National Inventors Hall of Fame.
The 2007 class of inductees was to be announced at an event Thursday on Capitol [...]

{ 1 comment }