Obituary: Paul C Lauterbur

Abstract

Co-developer of magnetic resonance imaging who shared the 2003 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine. "[...] the point is that if you change the direction in space in which the magnetic field is non-uniform, it turns out you can reconstruct the three-dimensional image in space", explained Charles Slichter, who would become a colleague when Lauterbur joined the faculty at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, IL, USA, in 1985.