Magnetic Resonance Image (MRI)

Felix Bloch shared the 1952 Nobel Prize in physics for work on nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR). NMR provided the basis for magnetic resonance imaging (MRI), which is now widely used for medical diagnosis and study of the atomic structure of materials.

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More on Nobelist Bloch and Stanford's other Nobel Prize winners (Stanford Report, 10/3/01)