1Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ85721, USA
2Center of Biophysics and Quantitative Biology, Department of Biochemistry and Department of Plant Biology, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, IL61801, USA
(*Corresponding author) email id: *gov@illinois.edu
Online Published on 27 May, 2022.
Do whatever really excites you in your life, and do it as best you can, and if you have enough luck, it will work out. — Paul Lauterbur
We provide here a brief personal tribute to Paul C. Lauterbur (6 May 1929 to 27 March 2007), who was the father of Carbon-13 Nuclear Magnetic Resonance (13C NMR) and inventor of Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI). He was awarded the 2003 Nobel Prize in Physiology and Medicine with Peter Mansfield ‘for their discoveries concerning magnetic resonance imaging’. He was engaging and personable, held himself to the utmost integrity, and believed in pressing doggedly one’s ideas to the end. This tribute gives a glimpse of his life, his research and the person he was. Included are wonderful reminiscences by Chien Ho, Joseph Frank, Vikas Gulani, Daniel Lauterbur, M. Elise Lauterbur, Zhi-Pei Liang, Debora McCall and Bharati Pamidighantam.
Magnetic resonance imaging, 13C NMR, Nuclear magnetic resonance, Joan Dawson, Stony Brook University, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
