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Doctor Makes Rare Protest Over Nobel Prize
http://www.washingtonpost.com/ac2/wp-dyn/A8230-2003Oct10?language=printer ^ | October 10, 2003 | Grant McCool

Posted on 10/10/2003 11:41:39 AM PDT by DittoJed2

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 the University of Illinois and Sir Peter Mansfield of the University of Nottingham, England, made technological improvements based on Damadian's work.

"When the announcement came out, my reaction was that I had been robbed of 33 years of my identity," Damadian, 67, told Reuters in a telephone interview. "The Nobel committee is rewriting history and is engaged in a revision of history."

(Excerpt) Read more at washingtonpost.com ...


TOPICS: Extended News; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: damadian; medicine; mri; nobel; nobelprize
Damadian filed for his patent before these guys wrote their paper. Damadian's claims have been confirmed in court in a suit against GE. The lovely folks at Nobel strike again.

Incidentally, Damadian is a conservative creationist.
1 posted on 10/10/2003 11:41:39 AM PDT by DittoJed2
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2 posted on 10/10/2003 11:43:16 AM PDT by Support Free Republic (Your support keeps Free Republic going strong!)
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To: DittoJed2
The Nobels have become meaningless. Mostly used to advance somebody's agenda or to make a political point. It's a shame. True achievement is so rarely recognized anymore.
3 posted on 10/10/2003 11:53:24 AM PDT by clintonh8r (A gentleman should know something about everything and everything about something.)
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To: Right Wing Professor
Clean-up on aisle 3.
4 posted on 10/10/2003 11:56:29 AM PDT by Physicist
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To: Physicist
He accused the panel of deliberately excluding him from the award worth $1.3 million.

Ain't it always about the money?

5 posted on 10/10/2003 12:08:16 PM PDT by balrog666 (As long as people believe in absurdities, they will continue to commit atrocities.)
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To: clintonh8r
The Nobel prize is oh so meaningful.


6 posted on 10/10/2003 12:08:21 PM PDT by glock rocks (fREE rEPUBLIC iS nOT aDDICTIVE! fREE rEPUBLIC iS nOT aDDICTIVE!)
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To: DittoJed2
Damadian filed for his patent before these guys wrote their paper

Except the patent didn't describe imaging. I figured Damadian would whine about this. Big problem is, one of the guys on the Nobel committee, Sture Forsen, is a very good NMR spectroscopist, and knows how bogus Damadian's claims are.

But I prefer to quote Damadian

If I had not been born, would MRI have existed? I don't think so. If Lauterbur had not been born? I would have gotten there. Eventually.”

So Lauterbur got there first. And Mansfield got there second. But Damadian thinks he should have won, because he would have 'gotten there eventually'. That's the way I feel about quantum mechanics. Give me a Nobel.

7 posted on 10/10/2003 12:15:43 PM PDT by Right Wing Professor (Proudly neocon since 1985!)
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To: glock rocks
The Nobels in science are awarded by an entirely different body from that which awards the Nobel Prize for peace.
8 posted on 10/10/2003 12:17:12 PM PDT by Right Wing Professor (Proudly neocon since 1985!)
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To: Right Wing Professor
I wonder who paid the 200 grand for the ads? I hope it wasn't a public company that the SEC will now be looking into.



9 posted on 10/10/2003 12:29:28 PM PDT by balrog666 (As long as people believe in absurdities, they will continue to commit atrocities.)
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To: Right Wing Professor
Is Damadian known to be someone who holds grudges?
10 posted on 10/10/2003 12:31:02 PM PDT by RightWingAtheist
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To: balrog666
Damadian's as rich as Croesus. The litigation against GE netted him hundreds of millions. Long before the Nobel, he spent huge sums pushing his claims.
11 posted on 10/10/2003 12:32:40 PM PDT by Right Wing Professor (Proudly neocon since 1985!)
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To: RightWingAtheist
Is Damadian known to be someone who holds grudges?

Worried? :-)

if Damadian went after everyone who criticized his campaign against Lauterbur, he'd be busy until the year 3000.

12 posted on 10/10/2003 12:35:26 PM PDT by Right Wing Professor (Proudly neocon since 1985!)
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You are dead wrong, Sir. That Quantum Mechanics idea (or QM, as those of us really in the know call it) came to me while having a cocktail at Ernies long before it was a twinkle in your beady eye.

You want a Nobel Prize, pal? Get on line right behind me. Stop trying to re-write history. On the other hand, those Norwegian lefties could have put down their lutefisk sandwiches long enough to do a little more thorough research on the MRI deal. Damadian had quite a bit to do with its theoretical underpinnings, he just fell down on the practical end.

13 posted on 10/10/2003 12:55:02 PM PDT by Kenny Bunk
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To: glock rocks
Man! That's eerie, that doctor looks just like yassir Arafat!

He's dying of cancer by the way, all good things come to those who wait.
14 posted on 10/10/2003 12:57:52 PM PDT by tet68 (multiculturalism is an ideological academic fantasy maintained in obvious bad faith. M. Thompson)
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To: balrog666
In his case, after the GE suit, a third of 1.3 mil is peanuts. I think this is for noteriety. You could be right, though.
15 posted on 10/10/2003 12:58:35 PM PDT by Cobra Scott
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To: Kenny Bunk
There's a lot about Quantum Mechanics that I just can't decide.
16 posted on 10/10/2003 5:43:28 PM PDT by JoeSchem (And Heisenberg agrees . . . maybe.)
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Dear Joe:
There's really nothing to decide. As long as you change the oil in your Quantum frequently, and change the timing belt every 60, 000, you should be OK. My personal Quantum Mechanic has allowed me to get over a 125,000 miles on my 89 Quantum with no serious trouble. In fact, I think he should get a Nobel Prize.
17 posted on 10/11/2003 10:47:53 PM PDT by Kenny Bunk
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