Wednesday 10 November 2010

PAUL C. LAUTERBUR



We have decided to talk about Paul C because in the ICTS they had told us that we have to choose one of the Nobel price winners and we chose Paul C.Lautrbur. We have chosen this person because he helped in hospitals and he did a wonderfull work for the world.

Paul C.Lauterbur was born on 6th of May of 1929 in Sidney, Ohio, and he died on 27 March of 2007 in United States on the age of 77. He graduated in Sidney High School where a new Chemistry, Phicics and Biology wing was dedicated in his honor. When he was a teenage he built a laboratory in the basement of his house. His chemistry teacher let him do his own experiments at the back of the class. In 1950 he went to the army and his superior ordered him to do a nuclear magnetic resonance machine.

He was awarded along Mansfield with Nobel price in 2003. They gave him the Nobel price because Raymond Damadian wrote in The New York Times, The Washington Post and in The Los Angeles Time protesting that they hadn't included Lauterbur and Mansfield in candidates for the Nobel Price. He said that they had been included for the discoveries of odorant receptors and the organization of the olfactory system.

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