5 Most Important Medical Discoveries in History

3. Development of Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI)

Year of Medical Discovery: 2003

Nobel Prize Winner: Paul Lauterbur and Sir Peter Mansfield

Today, magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) is a common technique to study the normality and abnormality of soft human tissues. Paul Lauterbur and Sir Peter Mansfield made a groundbreaking discovery of magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) and made it to our list of the most important medical discoveries in history.