Raymond Vahan Damadian was an American physician and creator of an NMR scanning scanner.
Dr. Raymond V. Damadian was rejected a Nobel Prize in 2004 for his contributions to the invention of magnetic resonance imaging.
However, he received a consolation award when the Franklin Institute in Philadelphia acknowledged his financial ability in turning the idea into a lucrative venture.
Damadian won multiple awards. Damadian received the Lemelson-MIT Prize Program’s $100,000 Lifetime Achievement Award in 2001 as “the guy who created the MRI scanner.”
He then worked with Wilson Greatbach, an early implanted pacemaker inventor, to create an MRI-compatible pacemaker. Damadian’s work on MRI was recognized with the Bower Award in Business Leadership by the Franklin Institute in Philadelphia. He was also honored “Man of the Year” by the Knights of Vartan in 2003.
In 1988, he was awarded the National Medal of Technology, and in 1989, he was inducted into the National Inventors Hall of Fame.
Damadian was the first person to do a full-body scan on a human being to identify cancer in 1977.
Damadian devised an equipment and method for scanning the human body with NMR in a safe and precise manner, which is today known as magnetic resonance imaging.
