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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...

PRIZE FIGHT Damadian, a physician-scientist then at Brooklyn’s Downstate Medical Center, went on to build the first magnetic resonance imaging machine, an MRI scanner he nicknamed Indomitable. Millions of patients would go on to benefit from this new technology’s capacity to create astonishingly sharp images of the body’s soft tissues. And Damadian appeared embarked on what many perceived to be an inevitable progression toward the famed concert hall in Stockholm where he would someday be awarded a Nobel Prize. **** But it is difficult not to at least consider another explanation: that scientists on the assembly or in other positions...

Creation Archive > Volume 26 Issue 4 > The not-so-Nobel decision The not-so-Nobel decision Recognition denied for achievement of great scientist—who is also a creationist by Carl Wieland Anticreationists often try to pretend that there is no prejudice against biblical creation in ‘the world of science’. But creationists have long known that things are not like that in the real world. We even have to publish our own peer-reviewed journals; any paper which does not bow to materialistic axioms on origins has a snowball’s chance in a blast furnace of getting published in a secular journal. In fact, some editors...

<p>"Being a good loser" is not a popular topic nowadays. I can't remember any "Good Losing for Dummies" titles in the bookstore, and we don't offer courses in the area. How should you behave if you are planning to win a Nobel prize and then don't? Not like Raymond Damadian, celebrated pioneer of MRI-style medical imaging and outraged non-recipient of this year's Nobel Prize for medicine. He tells us he was in "agony" when he got the news that two other MRI trailblazers had been picked but he hadn't -- and I believe him, but can't figure out why I should care.</p>

Reuters Friday, October 10, 2003; 12:25 PM By Grant McCool NEW YORK (Reuters) - A U.S. doctor who owns a patent on magnetic resonance imaging machines has made a rare public denouncement of the Nobel Prize for Medicine committee, saying it explicitly omitted him from Monday's shared award. In a full page advertisement in The New York Times on Friday and The Washington Post on Thursday, Raymond Damadian, president and founder of Fonar Corp., described the prize as "The Shameful Wrong That Must Be Righted." The advertisement said that the two men who won the Nobel, Paul C. Lauterbur of...