Department of Chemistry, SCS, UIUC
Dr. Paul C. Lauterbur, Professor of Chemistry was awarded the 2003 Nobel Prize in Medicine or Physiology.
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| A Nobel year for the Department of Chemistry at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Dr. Paul C. Lauterbur, Professor of Chemistry was awarded the 2003 Nobel Prize in Medicine or Physiology. In 1971, Professor Lauterbur realized that NMR signals could be used to make a new kind of image, and he published this concept in a landmark paper in the journal, Nature. This work led directly to the development what is today the most important and useful visualization technique in medicine, Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI). He conceived the possibility of MRI, demonstrated that it could be done, and developed many of the techniques and applications that have made possible the world-wide and ever-increasing use of MRI in clinical diagnosis and in biomedical research. It is no exaggeration to say the Professor Lauterbur’s contribution to human health is immense. Dr. Lauterbur joins the following nine Nobel Laureates who have either taught at or graduated from the University of Illinois Department of Chemistry:
Professor Paul Lauterbur's undergraduate students doing research in his lab was detailed in a Postmarks, spring 2004 article. |  All photos except Certificate by Darrell Hoemann, courtesy the News-Gazette; Certificate photo courtesy Prof. Stanley Smith |
