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Lauterbur, Paul C.
American scientist (1929-) who shared the 2003 Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine with Sir Peter Mansfield for discoveries concerning 'magnetic resonance imaging.' (Magnetic resonance imaging is better known perhaps as MRI). Lauterbur…
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