"Lauterbur's Legacy: Looking at Life"
A Memorial Symposium
Dear Colleagues and Friends,
It is a great pleasure to invite you to attend a symposium in celebration of the life and accomplishments of the late Professor Paul C. Lauterbur, who was awarded the 2003 Nobel Prize in Medicine for his ground breaking research at Stony Brook that led to magnetic resonance imaging (MRI).
In a publication that appeared in Nature in 1973, Lauterbur showed that NMR spectra obtained in prescribed inhomogeneous magnetic fields could be used to reconstruct images of objects containing nuclear spins. This unprecedented imaging principle formed the basis for MRI, which Lauterbur soon demonstrated by obtaining the first in vivo image of biological tissue.
The planned symposium, entitled “Lauterbur’s Legacy: Looking at Life,” will be held during the afternoon of Friday, September 7, 2007 in the auditorium of the Student Activities Center at Stony Brook University. It will feature cutting edge MRI and NMR research in health, environment and energy, and will also include a report on Paul’s latest and last inquiries concerning the origin of life. The plenary speaker will be Professor Richard Ernst of the ETH (Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, in Zürich), the 1991 Nobel laureate in Chemistry. Professor Ernst’s lecture has been designated a Stony Brook Presidential Lecture.
After the plenary lecture a champagne reception and banquet will be held in the Charles B. Wang Center ($100 per person). To RSVP the Symposium and/or the banquet, please visit our website: http://sunysb.edu/chemistry/news/pcl/ where online registration will soon be available. Please respond by September 1, 2007. We encourage you to share this invitation with other alumni and friends who may not have received this letter.
We realize this is short notice but we really look forward to seeing as many colleagues and friends as possible at these forthcoming events on September 7.
Very best regards until then,
Chair of Symposium Organizing Committee
Francis T. Bonner