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Posted on 05/11/2015 9:17:15 AM PDT by fishtank
Raymond Damadian, Inventor of the MRI
by Jerry Bergman, Ph.D. *
Evidence for Creation
Dr. Raymond Damadian is the “father of the MRI” (Magnetic Resonance Imaging). MRI is widely recognized as “one of the great medical breakthroughs of the 20th century” and has saved and enhanced countless lives.1
While studying violin at the world-famous Juilliard School of Music, Damadian competed with nearly 100,000 applicants and won a Ford Foundation Scholarship. He was only 15. This enabled him to complete a mathematics degree at the University of Wisconsin. He then earned his medical degree at the Albert Einstein College of Medicine and later did graduate work in biophysics at Harvard.
Damadian then became a professor at the State University of New York Downstate Medical Center, where he taught until he founded a company to manufacture MRI scanners.2 He also published widely in peer-reviewed scientific literature, including a highly cited cover article on MRI in the leading journal Science.3
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“Damadian became a born-again Christian in 1957 at a Billy Graham crusade in Madison Square Garden.11 Extensive reading and study on science and theology put his Christian faith on firm footing, especially on the creation-evolution question. He also became keenly aware of the fallacy of Darwinism. Since then, Damadian has been very active in supporting creationism.12 He writes that he now understands
what the Apostle Paul calls the renewed mind. Out of a mind renewed by Jesus came the obvious. How could a scientist achieve his goal of discovering the absolute truths that govern the natural world without the blessing of the Author of those truths? For me now the true thrill of science is the search to understand a small corner of God’s grand design, and to lay the glory for such discoveries at the Grand Designer’s feet.13”
Looks like Dick Van Dyke from the Diagnosis Murder series.
Anyone old enough to remember ‘exploratory surgery’?
MRI stands for ‘Magnetic Resonance Imaging’.
It was once known as NMR which stands for ‘Nuclear Magnetic Resonance’.
But the word ‘nuclear’ in medicine was deemed distracting and not fitting for the art of medicine. So the invention was changed from NMR to MRI.
Very interesting.
The guy behind a very important medical discovery also has an opinion on Darwin.
haha ... good eye...
Because the word "nuclear" is baaaaaaddd..
Dr. Damadian was my Cell Biology teacher in 1972. It was SO EXCITING when he came in on Mondays, brimming with excitement about the experiments he was doing on his own time to produce these amazing images that we now take for granted. It didn’t hurt that we got to learn about this exciting, bleeding edge technology instead of more, boring, textbook stuff.
There is no doubt - none whatsoever - that his invention was stolen and that his omission from the Nobel Prize award was a gross injustice.
Appears to be untrue- I had a NMR in 1983. it said “NMR” on the machine and on my test prescriptions for the procedure-
It was known as “NMR” Nuclear Magnetic Resonance coz the atomic nucleus spins and spins back, when it was already a medical device COMMERCIALIZED and used in hospitals as “NMR”, not an invention name changed, but the actual medical device name was was changed after so many years [in late 1990`s]of use on patients- duhhhhh- been there, been NMR`d couple times,- “MRI” is propaganda name to give people a “comfort zone”-
MRI (NMR) spectroscopy was pioneered by a professor of chemistry at the University of Illinois — Champaign/Urbana by the name of Herbert Gutowsky.
No Way!
We all know that evolutionary theory is
ESSENTIAL
for any scientific pursuit!
An inspired teacher makes all the difference. And an inspired atheist is practically an oxymoron.
What is untrue. Yes it commercially called NMR before it was called MRI. GE was very involved in the technology and they at one time called it NMR.
So there’s no disagreement from this end. Maybe you read something into it?
Once an invention is commercialized, it`s no longer called an invention but it`s called a “product”.
Why are you lecturing about this? There is no point.
viz your “MRI stands for ‘Magnetic Resonance Imaging’.
It was once known as NMR which stands for ‘Nuclear Magnetic Resonance’.
But the word ‘nuclear’ in medicine was deemed distracting and not fitting for the art of medicine. So the invention was changed from NMR to MRI.”
Inventions get patented usually. The “invention” wasn`t changed; the product NAME was. It was like changing the name of your horse in mid-stream. Or, similar to calling the Ford Mustang a “Mustang” for ten years; then all of a sudden Ford renames it the “Morgan.” It`s called false advertising. Same product by 2 different names coz they didn`t like the one they used for ten years. It`s called Bullsht.— Coz people were afraid of NUCLEAR RADIATION, which it ain`t. It had nothing whatsoever to do with the art of medicine- Au contraire, it had much to do about NEGATIVE PUBLIC PERCEPTIONS OF PRODUCT BRAND NAME ASSOCIATIONS and loss OF SALES$$$$$ THEREOF> PERIOD>
I knew that. I knew it was political correctness. I chose to use the wording I did because I felt it wasn’t worth bogging thread down with distractions of PC.
My aim was simply to inform of another acronym.
I never expected someone like yourself to start lecturing about such trivialities.
Reminds me of when iwas having house built. I had a meet with the GC on site. He told me the framers were putting in a ‘pony wall’
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