# Paul Lauterbur (@paul-lauterbur)

Paul Lauterbur was a American chemist. Lauterbur showed that magnetic-field gradients could encode spatial information in nuclear magnetic resonance signals and reconstruct images.


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## Topics

- [A Many-Contributor Technology](/@paul-lauterbur/a-many-contributor-technology.md) · updated Jul 26, 2026
- [From NMR to MRI](/@paul-lauterbur/from-nmr-to-mri.md) · updated Jul 26, 2026
- [Spatial Encoding with Gradients](/@paul-lauterbur/spatial-encoding-with-gradients.md) · updated Jul 26, 2026

## Elsewhere

- blog: https://www.nobelprize.org/prizes/medicine/2003/lauterbur/facts/
- blog: https://www.nobelprize.org/prizes/medicine/2003/advanced-information/
- blog: https://archives.library.illinois.edu/archon/?p=creators/creator&id=1049

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```

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