Paul C. Lauterbur

Prix

1. 1984

   Prix Lasker — Prix Lasker-DeBakey pour la recherche médicale clinique

   Biologie

   For theoretical and technical contributions that made possible a new form of medical imaging, based on nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR).

2. 1985

   Prix international Canada Gairdner

   Biologie

   For first proposing the use of nuclear magnetic resonance to produce images and demonstrating its application to human disease.

3. 1994

   Prix Kyoto — Technologie avancée

   Informatique

   Proposal of the Basic Principles and Outstanding Contribution to the Development of MRI that Confers a Great Benefit on Clinical Medicine.

4. 2003

   prix Nobel — Médecine

   Biologie

   for their discoveries concerning magnetic resonance imaging