EUROPEAN MAGNETIC RESONANCE AWARD 2008 TO KUHL AND BITTOUN.

Valencia, 21 May 2008. At a ceremony in Valencia, Spain, the European Magnetic Resonance Award for Basic Sciences was confered on Klaes Golman of Malmö, Sweden, and European Magnetic Resonance Award for Medical Sciences on Luis Martí-Bonmatí of Valencia, Spain.

LAUTERBUR DIES

FATHER OF MRI DIES AT AGE 77

27 March 2007. Paul Lauterbur, who received the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 2003 for inventing magnetic resonance imaging, died at his home in Urbana, Illinois, on 27 March. He was 77.

He shared the Nobel Prize with Peter Mansfield of Nottingham.

Working at the Department of Chemistry of the State University of New York at Stony Brook, he first described MRI, dubbed "zeugmatography" by him, in an article published in Nature in 1973. Many of the widely used techniques and applications in MRI were described by him and his research group in the 1970s and early 1980s.

After he left Stony Brook in the late 1980s, he worked at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. He received EMRF's European Magnetic Resonance Award in 1986.

Obituary

EUROPEAN MAGNETIC RESONANCE AWARD 2006 TO KUHL AND BITTOUN.

Vilnius, 16 June 2006. The Nominating Committee has decided to award the European Magnetic Resonance Award for 2006 to Christiane Kuhl and Jacques Bittoun for their contributions to basic and applied research in medical magnetic resonance.

Christiane Kuhl and Jacques Bittoun

EUROPEAN MAGNETIC RESONANCE AWARD 2004 TO PRUESSMANN AND AIME

Porto, 28 May 2004. The Nominating Committee has decided to award the European Magnetic Resonance Award for 2004 to Klaas P. Prüssmann and Silvio Aime.

Klaas P. Prüssmann received the Award "for his discoveries concerning parallel magnetic resonance imaging", Silvio Aime "for his inventive contributions to the development of MR contrast agents"

EMRF TO FURNISH SCIENTIFIC MR LIBRARY

Sophia-Antipolis, 15 April 2004. As the basis for the build-up of a MR research library, EMRF has bestowed scientific journals and books covering research and development in magnetic resonance imaging and spectroscopy from their beginning, coverning some twenty-five years, to the Thuringian State Library in Jena, Germany. The donation consisted of more than one ton of publications.

Vienna, 5 March 2004. For the first time, EMRF was represented with a booth at the European Congress of Radiology in Vienna from 5 to 9 March 2004.

The exhibition gave an overview of EMRF's efforts in special topic conferences, continuing education, and humanitarian aid.

NOBEL PRIZE 2003

NOBEL PRIZE IN PHYSIOLOGY OR MEDICINE 2003 FOR
PAUL C. LAUTERBUR AND PETER MANSFIELD

Stockholm, 10 December 2003. The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for 2003 has been awarded jointly to Paul C. Lauterbur and Peter Mansfield for their discoveries concerning magnetic resonance imaging.Paul Lauterbur (born 1929) discovered the possibility to create a two-dimensional picture by introducing gradients in the magnetic field and received the Prize for his invention of MR imaging.Peter Mansfield (born 1933) received the award for further developent of the utilization of gradients in the magnetic field and the development of rapid imaging.

Paul C. Lauterbur receiving the Nobel Prize from the hands of the King of Sweden.
Peter Mansfield standing to the left in the first row (© EMRF).

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Lauterbur and Mansfield receiving their prizes from the King of Sweden
(© Nobel Foundation).

Further details at www.nobel.se.

A short summary of the history of MR imaging can be found elsewhere on this website

RINCK AND MULLER OF THE EMRF BOARD CONGRATULATE THE NOBEL PRIZE WINNERS

Stockholm, 10 December 2003. "We deeply appreciate this year's selection of laureates for the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine. Paul Lauterbur's and Peter Mansfield's contributions to medical imaging are pivotal and reflect the sense of the will of Alfred Nobel: for the benefit of mankind."

Peter A. Rinck and Robert N. Muller, Chairman and Vice-Chairman of the Board, added after the Nobel Prize Ceremony in Stockholm: "The wealth of medical information that can be obtained with even only a single magnetic resonance image in a non-invasive way is one of the great leaps forward in modern medicine."

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