Sidney is the hometown of renowned scientist and Nobel Prize winner Paul Lauterbur, who was involved in the invention of the MRI.

Lauterbur is a 1962 graduate of the University of Pittsburgh and credits the idea of the MRI to a brainstorm one day at a suburban Pittsburgh Big Boy, with the MRI's first model scribbled on a table napkin.

Lauterbur persisted and requested them to review it again, upon which time it was published and is now acknowledged as a classic Nature paper.

Reflecting the fundamental importance and applicability of MRI in medicine, Paul Lauterbur of the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and Sir Peter Mansfield of the University of Nottingham were awarded the 2003 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for their " discoveries concerning magnetic resonance imaging ".

When Paul Lauterbur and Peter Mansfield won a Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for research initially rejected by Nature and published only after Lauterbur appealed the rejection, Nature acknowledged more of its own missteps in rejecting papers in an editorial titled " Coping with Peer Rejection ":

Paul Christian Lauterbur ( May 6, 1929 – March 27, 2007 ) was an American chemist who shared the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 2003 with Peter Mansfield for his work which made the development of magnetic resonance imaging ( MRI ) possible.

Dr. Lauterbur was a professor along with his wife Joan at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign for 22 years until his death in Urbana.

While Lauterbur conducted his work at Stony Brook, the best NMR machine on campus belonged to the chemistry department ; he would have to visit it at night to use it for experimentation and would carefully change the settings so that they would return to those of the chemists ' as he left.

Controversy occurred when Raymond Damadian took out full-page ads in The New York Times, The Washington Post and The Los Angeles Times headlined " The Shameful Wrong That Must Be Righted " saying that the Nobel committee had not included him as a Prize winner alongside Lauterbur and Mansfield for his early work on the MRI.

The New York Times published an editorial saying that while scientists credit Damadian for holding an early patent in MRI technology, Lauterbur and Mansfield expanded upon Herman Carr's technique in order to produce first 2D and then 3D MR images.

Lauterbur and Sir Peter Mansfield were awarded the 2003 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for their discoveries concerning MRI.

He had served on the National Cancer Institute's Board of Scientific Advisors from 1998-2002. He has won several awards for his research including a Gold Medal from the American Roentgen Ray Society for CT research and two Paul Lauterbur Awards for MRI research.

Paul Lauterbur expanded on Carr's technique and developed a way to generate the first MRI images, in 2D and 3D, using gradients.

In 1973, Lauterbur published the first nuclear magnetic resonance image.

* the development of magnetic resonance imaging in 1973 by Professor Peter Mansfield and independently by Paul Lauterbur.

Born and raised in Sidney, Ohio, Lauterbur graduated from Sidney High School, where a new Chemistry, Physics, and Biology wing was dedicated in his honor.

Frank Lauterbur followed, coaching from 1971-1973 with a 4-28-1 record, with a 0-11 record in 1973.

Peter Mansfield, a physicist and professor at the university, then developed a mathematical technique that would allow scans to take seconds rather than hours and produce clearer images than Lauterbur had.

The actual research that won the prize was done almost 30 years before, while Paul Lauterbur was at Stony Brook University in New York.

The award was vigorously protested by Raymond Vahan Damadian, founder of FONAR Corporation, who claimed that he invented the MRI, and that Lauterbur and Mansfield had merely refined the technology.

* 1929 – Paul Lauterbur, American chemist, Nobel Prize laureate ( d. 2007 )

* 2007 – Paul Lauterbur, American chemist, Nobel laureate ( b. 1929 )

* May 6 – Paul Lauterbur, American chemist, Nobel laureate ( d. 2007 )

Lauterbur was of Luxembourgish ancestry.

Some of the first images taken by Lauterbur included those of a clam his daughter had collected on the beach at the Long Island Sound, green peppers and two test tubes of heavy water within a beaker of ordinary water ; no other imaging technique in existence at that time could distinguish between two different kinds of water.

When Lauterbur first submitted his paper with his discoveries to Nature, the paper was rejected by the editors of the journal.

Lauterbur said of the initial rejection: " You could write the entire history of science in the last 50 years in terms of papers rejected by Science or Nature.

Lauterbur unsuccessfully attempted to file patents related to his work to commercialize the discovery.

That turned out not to be a spectacularly good decision ," Lauterbur said in 2003.

From left to right, Dr. Roderick MacKinnon, New York City ( chemistry ); Dr. Anthony Leggett, Urbana, Illinois ( physics ); Dr. Robert Engle, New York City ( economics ); Dr. Alexei Alexeyevich Abrikosov | Alexei Abrikosov, Argonne, Illinois ( physics ); Dr. Peter Agre, Baltimore, Maryland ( chemistry ); and Dr. Paul Lauterbur, Urbana, Illinois ( physiology / medicine ).

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