Paul Christian Lauterbur ( May 6 , 1929 -- March 27 , 2007 ) was an American chemist who shared the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 2003 with Peter Mansfield for his work which made the development of magnetic resonance imaging ( MRI ) possible .
Paul Christian Lauterbur ( May 6 , 1929 -- March 27 , 2007 ) was an American chemist . Lauterbur won the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 2003 with Peter Mansfield `` for their discoveries concerning magnetic resonance imaging '' .