Nobel prize for medicine awarded to MRI inventor

Published October 6, 2003

(AP)- An American and a Briton won the Nobel Prize in medicine yesterday for discoveries that led to MRI, the body-scanning technique that has revolutionized the detection of disease by painlessly revealing internal organs in exquisite 3-D detail.


Paul Lauterbur, 74, of the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and Sir Peter Mansfield, 69, of the University of Nottingham in England were honored for work they did independently of each other in the 1970s.