Nobel Prize
Mansfield was awarded the Nobel Prize for Medicine, shared with Paul Lauterbur, in the autumn of 2003. Controversy occurred when Raymond Damadian took out full-page advertisements in The New York Times, The Washington Post and The Los Angeles Times headlined "The Shameful Wrong That Must Be Righted" saying that the Nobel committee had not included him as a prizewinner alongside Mansfield and Lauterbur for his early work on the MRI. Damadian claimed that he discovered MRI and the two Nobel-winning scientists refined his technology. The New York Times published an editorial saying that while scientists credit Damadian for holding an early patent in MRI technology, Lauterbur and Mansfield expanded upon Herman Carr's technique in order to produce first 2D and then 3D MR images.
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