Been following this story since the beginning, three decades ago. I think the award did a disservice.
The reason for the delay is emplified by the fact that this 1977 human scan was not done by one of the Nobel winners, but by Raymond Damadian MD, of Fonar. Among other things, he originally came up with the idea of using T1 and T2 as imaging modalities. Dr Damadian's original 1971 paper in Science stimulated all the rest. He also won a big patent infringment lawsuit against GE for his MRI discoveries.
His claims and the way he presented them greatly complicated matters for the Nobel committee, who dislike disproofs of their assumption that all important discovery comes from some Herr Professor Doctor type or from Bell labs. We have not seen the end of this dispute yet.
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True, and modern aircraft don't look like the Wright Brother's flyer. This does not mean they didn't invent powered flight... Peter H Proctor, PhD, MD
Been following this story since the beginning, three decades ago. I think the award did a disservice.
The reason for the delay is emplified by the fact that this 1977 human scan was not done by one of the Nobel winners, but by Raymond Damadian MD, of Fonar. Among other things, he originally came up with the idea of using T1 and T2 as imaging modalities. Dr Damadian's original 1971 paper in Science stimulated all the rest. He also won a big patent infringment lawsuit against GE for his MRI discoveries.
His claims and the way he presented them greatly complicated matters for the Nobel committee, who dislike disproofs of their assumption that all important discovery comes from some Herr Professor Doctor type or from Bell labs. We have not seen the end of this dispute yet.