Young Medics Association in Armenia

The biography of the Armenian inventor of MRI (magnetic resonance imaging) which detecs tumors painlessly, Dr. Raymond V. Damadian is in the January 2000 issue of Current Biography magazine. A Machine Called Indomitable (1985) by the former New York Times business reporter Sonny Kleinfield, offers a profile of Damadian and an account of the development of MRI technology. In 1978 he formed his own company FONAR (Field Focused Nuclear Magnetic Resonance to manufacture NMR scanners. He wants to introduce innovations to the MRI to overcome the shortcomings of the X-ray mammography machines and eliminate the indignities suffered by women patients...



Dr. G Shmavonyan's site: Doctor of Physics State Engineering University of Armenia
Lecturer at Microelectronics and Biomedical Microelectronics Devices Devision,
Senior Research Scientist at Heliotechnics Laboratory


IMPORTANT INFO REGARDING THE ARMENIAN INVENTOR OF MRI, Dr. Raymond V. Damadian:
At the Creative Armenians Network Yahoo Groups the following was posted by one of the members. Here is the details of the text:
"THE SHAMEFUL WRONG THAT MUST BE RIGHTED
INFO CALL 631 694 2929 D CULVER
E MAIL TO NOBEL CORRECT ITS ERROR : secr@mednobel.ki.se
THIS YEAR NOBEL PRIZE IN MEDICINE
THE SHAMEFUL WRONG THAT MUST BE RIGHTED

U.S. doctor makes rare protest over Nobel prize NEW YORK, Oct 10
(Reuters) - A U.S. doctor who owns a patent on magnetic resonance
imaging machines has made a rare public denouncement of the Nobel
Prize for Medicine committee, saying it explicitly omitted him from
Monday's shared award. Updated 9 hours ago American Doctor Makes Rare
Protest Over Nobel Prize
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NEW YORK (Oct. 10) - A U.S. doctor who owns a patent on magnetic
resonance imaging machines has made a rare public denouncement of the
Nobel Prize for Medicine committee, saying it explicitly omitted him
from Monday's shared award. Updated 8 hours ago U.S. doctor makes
rare protest over Nobel prize
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NEW YORK (Reuters) - A U.S. doctor who owns a patent on magnetic
resonance imaging machines has made a rare public denouncement of the
Nobel Prize for Medicine committee, saying it explicitly omitted him
from Monday's shared award. Updated 9 hours ago Scientist Protests
Nobel Prize Exclusion

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NEW YORK (AP) - A researcher who says he was unjustly excluded from
this year's Nobel Prize in medicine has placed full-page newspaper
ads asking people to write the Nobel committee in protest. Updated 10
hours ago http://aolsvc.news.aol.com/business/article.adp?


FYI: Please see the biographical report in the January 2000 issue of Current Biography magazine - go to your public library and ask for it. If you have problems contact the magazine.