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The 2003 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine has been awarded to chemist Paul C. Lauterbur, 74, of the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, and physicist Sir Peter Mansfield, 70, of the University of Nottingham, in England, for their contributions to the development of magnetic resonance imaging (MRI). Lauterbur University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign “[MRI] is one of the few things that have happened in the last 50 years that has had an incredible and immediate impact on the lay public,” says Russell E. Jacobs, a researcher at California Institute of Technology’s Biological Imaging Center. In 2002, more than 60 million MRI procedures were performed. |
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