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.
An inspired teacher makes all the difference. And an inspired atheist is practically an oxymoron.