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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 at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign for 22 years until his death in Urbana. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Paul Lauterbur has received more than 0 page views. His biography is available in 55 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 54 in 2019). Paul Lauterbur is the 246th most popular chemist (down from 150th in 2019), the 1,519th most popular biography from United States (down from 1,060th in 2019) and the 50th 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 246 out of 602Before him are Mária Telkes, William Hyde Wollaston, Elias James Corey, Thomas Graham, Ryōji Noyori, and William C. Campbell. After him are Ida Noddack, Sidney Altman, Thomas A. Steitz, Joseph L. Goldstein, Bernard Courtois, and Walter Gilbert.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1929, Paul Lauterbur ranks 100Before him are Fernanda Montenegro, Lorenzo Buffon, Stirling Moss, Michael Atiyah, Chespirito, and David Kelly. After him are Věra Chytilová, Hélène Carrère d'Encausse, José Santamaría, Alasdair MacIntyre, Bob Denard, and Georgi Markov. Among people deceased in 2007, Paul Lauterbur ranks 49Before him are Paul Watzlawick, Norman Mailer, Gaston Thorn, John Backus, E. Howard Hunt, and Taha Yassin Ramadan. After him are Petar Stambolić, Michel Serrault, Bob Denard, Rudolf Arnheim, Robert Adler, and Ian Smith.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Paul Lauterbur ranks 1,519 out of 20,380Before him are Phil Jackson (1945), Henry Norris Russell (1877), Nicholas Ray (1911), Debbie Harry (1945), Phil Knight (1938), and Creighton Abrams (1914). After him are James Brendan Connolly (1868), Viola Davis (1965), Lionel Stander (1908), Grace Zabriskie (1941), Matthew Broderick (1962), and River Phoenix (1970).

Among CHEMISTS In United States

Among chemists born in United States, Paul Lauterbur ranks 50Before him are Stephanie Kwolek (1923), Alfred G. Gilman (1941), William Lipscomb (1919), Robert Bruce Merrifield (1921), Roger D. Kornberg (1947), and Elias James Corey (1928). After him are Thomas A. Steitz (1940), Joseph L. Goldstein (1940), Walter Gilbert (1932), Dudley R. Herschbach (1932), Richard Smalley (1943), and Edward W. Morley (1838).