Paul C. Lauterbur

Awards

1. 1984

   Lasker Award — Lasker–DeBakey Clinical Medical Research Award

   Biology

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

2. 1985

   Canada Gairdner International Award

   Biology

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

3. 1994

   Kyoto Prize — Advanced Technology

   CS

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

4. 2003

   Nobel Prize — Medicine

   Biology

   for their discoveries concerning magnetic resonance imaging