Raymond Vahan Damadian
Raymond Vahan Damadian (Forest Hills, 16 de março de 1936) é um médico e inventor estadunidense.

É co-inventor da Ressonância magnética.
is an American practitioner and co-inventor of magnetic resonance imaging (MRI). Damadian discovered that tumors and normal tissue can be distinguished in vivo by nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) because of their relaxation times. Damadian was the first to perform a full body scan of a human being in 1977 to diagnose cancer. His invention was able to locate cancerous tissue without producing an image. His method was later replaced with other methods, because it was not reliable and effective enough. Therefore, when in 2003 the Nobel Prize for MRI with pictures was awarded to Paul Lauterbur and Peter Mansfield, Damadian was not given part of the prize. 

But Damadian received other prizes:
In 2001, the Lemelson-MIT Prize Program bestowed its $100,000 Lifetime Achievement Award on Damadian as "the man who invented the MRI scanner." He went on to collaborate with Wilson Greatbach, one early developer of the implantable pacemaker, to develop an MRI-compatible pacemaker. The Franklin Institute in Philadelphia gave its recognition of Damadian's work on MRI with the Bower Award in Business Leadership. He was also named Knights of Vartan 2003 "Man of the Year". He received a National Medal of Technology in 1988 and was inducted in the National Inventors Hall of Fame in 1989.
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