American Chemical Society to Designate the Development of the MRI at Stony Brook's Chemistry Department a National Historic Landmark
Wednesday, March 9, 2011 - 17:00
in Physics & Chemistry
Nancy B. Jackson, President of the American Chemical Society (ACS), Joan Dawson, Professor Emerita, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and widow of the late Professor Paul Lauterbur, and others will be at Stony Brook University on Friday, March 11 to commemorate via ACS historic landmark designation the first construction of an image by Nuclear Magnetic Resonance by Prof. Paul Lauterbur 30 years ago in the Stony Brook University Department of Chemistry. This work led to the awarding of the 2003 Nobel Prize in Medicine to Professor Lauterbur.