Herman Carr
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Herman Y. Carr (born 1924) is an American physicist and pioneer of magnetic resonance imaging.
Carr was born in Alliance, Ohio. He received his BS, MS and PHD from Harvard University, where he studied under Edward Purcell. He later moved to Rutgers University, where he was professor. He retired in 1987.
In 2003 the Nobel Prize in Medicine was awarded to Paul C. Lauterbur and Peter Mansfield for their work on MRI. There was some controversy that Carr was not awarded the prize jointly with Lauterbur and Mansfield, and Carr wrote to Physics Today to say that his work had been overlooked [1] but without explicitly making a claim that he should have been awarded the prize. See Nobel Prize controversies.
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[edit] References
- ^ Herman Y. Carr, "Field Gradients in Early MRI," Physics Today, 2004 July, page 83.
