The 1994 Laureates / Advanced Technology Category / Biotechnologies (including Medical Technologies)
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Paul Christian Lauterbur

U.S.A. / May 6, 1929 - 2007
Chemist; Professor and Director, Biomedical Magnetic Resonance Laboratory, University of Illinois

A chemist who was the first to propose the basic principles of magnetic resonance imaging (MRI), an imaging diagnosis method widely applied in modern medicine. He confirmed experimentally the feasibility of MRI and laid the foundations for its improvement and development, and also developed many related technologies. Dr. Lauterbur has thus contributed immeasurably to clinical medicine.

BRIEF BIOGRAPHY
1929
Born in Sidney, Ohio, U.S.A.
1951
B.S. in Chemistry, Case Institute of Technology, Cleveland
1962
Ph.D. in Chemistry, University of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
1969-1985
Professor of Chemistry, Radiology, New York University at Stony Brook
1985-1990
Professor, University of Illinois, College of Medicine at Chicago
1985-present
Professor and Director, Biomedical Magnetic Resonance Laboratory, University of Illinois, College of Medicine at Urbana-Champaign

AWARDS AND HONORS
1982
Gold Medal of the Society of Magnetic Resonance in Medicine
1984
The Albert Lasker Clinical Research Award
1986
The Association of American Medical Colleges (AAMC) for Distinguished Research in the Biomedical Sciences
1987
The Gold Medal of the Radiological Society of North America
1992
International Society of Magnetic Resonance Award

MAJOR WORKS
1973
Image Formation by Induced Local Interactions. Nature.242.
1975
Zeugmatographic High Resolution Nuclear Magnetic Resonance Spectroscopy. Images of Chemical Inhomogeneity within Microscopic Objects. (with Kramer, D.M., House, Jr., W.V., and Chen, C. -N.) Am. Chem. Soc. 97.
1984
Theory and Simulation of NMR Spectroscopic Imaging and Field Plotting by Projection Reconstruction Involving an Intrinsic Frequency Dimension. (with Levin, D.N. and Marr, R.B.) J. Magn. Reson. 59.
1993
Nuclear Magnetic Resonance (NMR) Imaging of Iron Oxide-Labelled Neural Transplants. (with Hawrylak, N. and others) Experimental Neurology.121.
1993
Three-Dimensional NMR Microscopy of Rat Spleen and Liver. (with Zhou, X. and others) Mag. Res. in Med. 30.