Raymond Vahan Damadian - Trivia, Family, Bio

Posted by Reinaldo Massengill on Friday, July 5, 2024

American doctor and inventor of the first Magnetic Resonance Scanning Machine. In 1977, he became the first person to carry out a full body scan of a human in order to diagnose cancer.

Before Fame

He earned a bachelor's degree in mathematics at the University of Wisconsin-Madison in 1956 and an M.D. degree from Albert Einstein College in Medicine in 1960.

Trivia

He was the recipient of many awards including a National Medal of Technology in 1988.

Family Life

He was born to an Armenian family in New York.

Associated With

Ben Carson is also an award-winning medical professional.

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