then points out a few cases in which precursor discoveries had been awarded with a Nobel, along with a few deserving cases in which it had not, such as Rosalind Franklin, Oswald Avery, . Death Lauterbur died aged 77 in March 2007 of kidney disease at his home in Urbana, Illinois. University of Illinois Chancellor Richard Herman said, "Paul's influence is felt around the world every day, every time an MRI saves the life of a daughter or a son, a mother or a father." Other awards and honors Albert Lasker Award for Clinical Medical Research, 1984 General Motors Cancer Research Foundation Kettering Prize, 1985 Gairdner Foundation International Award, 1985 The Harvey Prize, 1986 National Medal of Science, 1987 Pittsburgh Spectroscopy Award, 1987 National Medal of Technology, 1988, (with Raymond Damadian) Bower Award, Franklin Institute of Philadelphia, 1990 (first recipient) Carnegie Mellon Dickson Prize in Science in 1993. NAS Award for Chemistry in Service to Society of the National Academy of Sciences, 2001 Charter member, Phi Kappa Tau Hall of Fame in 2006. National Inventors Hall of Fame, class of 2007 Asteroid 255598 Paullauterbur, discovered by Italian amateur astronomer Silvano Casulli in 2006, was named in his honor. The official was published by the Minor Planet Center on January 12, 2017 (). Stony Brook University named a student residence after Lauterbur in 2010. Honorary Degrees Carnegie-Mellon University in Pittsburgh University of Liège in Belgium Nicolaus Copernicus University Medical School in Kraków, Poland See also Nobel Prize controversies Luxembourg American References Further reading Dawson, M. Joan. Paul Lauterbur and the Invention of MRI, Boston: MIT Press, 2013. "Paul C. Lauterbur – Biographical". Nobelprize.org. Nobel Media AB. External links Paul C. Lauterbur, Genesis of the MRI (Magnetic Resonance Imaging) notebook, September 1971 (all pages freely available for download in variety of formats from Science History Institute Digital Collections at digital.sciencehistory.org) including the Nobel Lecture All Science is Interdisciplinary – from Magnetic Moments to Molecules to Men University of Pittsburgh Medical School article on alumnus Lauterbur Paul C. Lauterbur Patents Joan Dawson, "Paul Lauterbur", Biographical Memoirs of the National Academy of Sciences (2012) 1929 births 2007 deaths 20th-century American chemists American atheists American biophysicists American Nobel laureates American people of Luxembourgian descent IEEE Medal of Honor recipients Winners of the Heineken Prize Members of the United States National Academy of Sciences National Medal of Science laureates National Medal of Technology recipients Nobel laureates