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Raymond Damadian

1936 - 2022

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Raymond Vahan Damadian (March 16, 1936 – August 3, 2022) was an American physician, medical practitioner, and inventor of the first nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) scanning machine. Damadian's research into sodium and potassium in living cells led him to his first experiments with nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) which caused him to first propose the MR body scanner in 1969. Damadian discovered that tumors and normal tissue can be distinguished in vivo by nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) because of their prolonged relaxation times, both T1 (spin-lattice relaxation) or T2 (spin-spin relaxation). Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Raymond Damadian has received more than 345,422 page views. His biography is available in 27 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 23 in 2019). Raymond Damadian is the 223rd most popular inventor (up from 265th in 2019), the 3,382nd most popular biography from United States (up from 4,593rd in 2019) and the 51st most popular American Inventor.

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  • 52.99

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 27

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 4.99

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 3.03

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

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Among INVENTORS

Among inventors, Raymond Damadian ranks 223 out of 354. Before him are Josip Belušić, Slavoljub Eduard Penkala, Henrich Focke, Robert Watson-Watt, Thonmi Sambhota, and Frederick Scott Archer. After him are Laurens Hammond, Marcian Hoff, Ruth Handler, Ricardo Wolf, Lillian Moller Gilbreth, and Ottomar Anschütz.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1936, Raymond Damadian ranks 182. Before him are Im Kwon-taek, Santos Abril y Castelló, Walter Lewin, Walter Koenig, Polina Astakhova, and Šaban Bajramović. After him are Joe Spinell, Carla Bley, Antonio López García, Guillermo Endara, Carl, Duke of Württemberg, and Trần Đức Lương. Among people deceased in 2022, Raymond Damadian ranks 161. Before him are Carmela Corren, Fred Brooks, Keto Losaberidze, Kay Parker, Bujar Nishani, and Mwai Kibaki. After him are Maximilian, Margrave of Baden, Fernando Gomes, Joachim Streich, Carl, Duke of Württemberg, Joseph Delaney, and Mark Lanegan.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Raymond Damadian ranks 3,382 out of 18,182. Before him are Lawrence Weiner (1942), Vito Acconci (1940), Anna Faris (1976), Lois Lowry (1937), Joanna Cassidy (1945), and Lois McMaster Bujold (1949). After him are Rhonda Fleming (1923), Jimmy Smith (1925), Joe Spinell (1936), Gustave Gilbert (1911), Vinnie Vincent (1952), and Dermot Mulroney (1963).

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Among INVENTORS In United States

Among inventors born in United States, Raymond Damadian ranks 51. Before him are Samuel Pierpont Langley (1834), Philo Farnsworth (1906), John Wesley Hyatt (1837), Eli Whitney (1765), Robert Cornelius (1809), and Larry Sanger (1968). After him are Laurens Hammond (1895), Marcian Hoff (1937), Ruth Handler (1916), Lillian Moller Gilbreth (1878), Theodore Maiman (1927), and Glenn Curtiss (1878).

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