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Brian Vastag

JAMA. 2003;290:2245-2246.

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The 2003 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine rewarded a chemist and a physicist who had no inkling their work would lead to medical applications, while the Nobel Prize in Chemistry went to a pair of bench researchers who discovered how cells regulate water and ion transport.

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Paul Lauterbur, PhD, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, and Peter Mansfield, PhD, Nottingham University, London, England, won the $1.3 million prize for physiology or medicine for discoveries that led to magnetic resonance imaging (MRI). Both men said that they did not foresee their work leading to a revolutionary medical technology involving some 60 million imaging scans each year.

Paul Lauterbur, PhD (left), and Peter Mansfield, PhD (right), won the 2003 Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine for discoveries that led to magnetic resonance imaging. (Photo credits: Bill Wiegand, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign [left]; University of Nottingham [right]).

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