US, British Duo Take Nobel Medicine Prize

World | October 6, 2003, Monday // 00:00

US scientist Paul C. Lauterbur and Briton Peter Mansfield jointly won the Nobel Prize for Medicine for their work on magnetic resonance imaging (MRI), which has made complex medical examinations more precise as well as less painful for millions of suffering patients. MRI is used to examine almost all organs of the body and is especially valuable for detailed imaging of the brain and the spinal cord. The pair's discoveries represent a breakthrough for medical diagnosis work. Progress on magnetic fields has been rewarded with several Nobel prizes over the decades, and earned Felix Bloch and Edward Mills Purcell the 1952 Physics award, but the 2003 laureates' big achievement is having applied it to the medical mainstream.

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