Nobel medicine prize goes to US, British scientists

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Nobel medicine prize goes to US, British scientists

US scientist Paul C. Lauterbur and Briton Peter Mansfield were awarded the 2003 Nobel Prize for medicine Monday, the Nobel jury announced.

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US scientist Paul C. Lauterbur and Briton Peter Mansfield were awarded the 2003 Nobel Prize for medicine Monday, the Nobel jury announced.

The two scientists "have made seminal discoveries concerning the use of magnetic resonance to visualize different structures, which represents a breakthrough in medical diagnostics and research," said the jury.

Lauterbur, 74, a faculty member of the University of Illinois in Urbana, the United States, discovered the possibility of creating a two-dimensional picture by producing variations in a magnetic field.

Meanwhile, Mansfield, 70, a faculty member at the University of Nottingham, Britain, utilized gradients in the magnetic field in order to more precisely show differences in the resonance. He showed how the detected signals rapidly and effectively could be analyzed and transformed to an image, a essential step in order to obtain a practical method.

The prize includes a check of 1.3 million US dollars. The awards always are presented on December 10, the anniversary of Alfred Nobel's death in 1896.

The Nobel Prize was established according to the will of Swedish industrialist and the inventor of dynamite, Alfred Nobel. The first Noble prize was awarded in 1901.

Last year's winners were Briton Sydney Brenner and John E. Sulston, and American H. Robert Horvitz for their discoveries about how genes regulate organ growth and a process of programmed cell suicide.

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