Paul C. Lauterbury

Paul Christian Lauterbur, (May 6, 1929 - March 27, 2007, Sidney, Ohio), chemist, 2003 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine, shared with Peter Mansfield for the development of magnetic resonance imaging technique.

Lauterbur was a professor at Stony Brook University from 1963 to 1985, where he did his research for the development of magnetic resonance imaging. In 1985 he became a professor with his wife Joan at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign for 22 years until his death in Urbana. He never stopped working with university students in research, serving as a professor of chemistry, with appointments in bioengineering, biophysics, Urbana-Champaign School of Medicine, and computational biology at the Center for Advanced Study.