Raymond Vahan Damadian

Doctor

Birthday March 16, 1936

Birth Sign Pisces

Birthplace New York

DEATH DATE Aug 3, 2022 (86)

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About

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.

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