Press Release | Monday, 13 October 2003
Prestigious honour for Leopoldina member. Paul C. Lauterbur (University of Illinois, USA) receives the 2003 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine
The Nobel Prize Committee awards the 2003 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine to the US American chemist Paul C. Lauterbur, among others. He is honoured for his outstanding achievements in the field of magnetic resonance tomography.
This modern imaging technique allows for precise monitoring of the progression and healing process of tumour diseases and, at the same time, a particularly gentle assessment. The German Academy of Sciences Leopoldina dedicated a special Leopoldina Symposium to this highly topical subject in May of 2003, which was organised by its radiology section and held in Leipzig. The results of the event will be published by the Academy in the spring of 2004.
Paul C. Lauterbur joined the German Academy of Sciences Leopoldina in 1992 and is a member of the radiology section. Lauterbur shares the prize with physicist Sir Peter Mansfeld from the University of Nottingham (UK).
