Nobels in medicine...
Inventors of medical scanners won the 2003 Nobel prize in physiology or medicine. Paul Lauterbur of the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign and Peter Mansfield of the University of Nottingham in the UK shared the prize for key breakthroughs which led to magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) scanners, which can look into the body without the damage caused by X-rays.
The physics prize was split three ways. Alexei Abrikosov of the Argonne National Laboratory in Illinois and Vitaly Ginzburg from the P.N. Lebedev Physical Institute in Moscow worked out how magnetic fields interact with superconductors. Anthony Leggett at the University of Illinois earned his share for deducing how atoms in superfluids interact to allow these odd liquids to flow without friction.
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