Paul Christian Lauterbur 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 possible. Wikipedia
Born: May 6, 1929, Sidney, OH
Died: March 27, 2007 (age 77 years), Urbana, IL
Education: University of Pittsburgh, Case Western Reserve University, and Sidney High School
Known for: Making the development of the MRI possible