Fallen MRI pioneer’s legacy shines beyond the world of science

May 23, 2008 Fallen MRI pioneer’s legacy shines beyond the world of science H. A. Abella -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- When physicist and inventor Herman Yaggi Carr, Ph.D., died, his survivors remembered him in two ways: First and foremost, as a staunch pacifist and humanist. Second, as the unsung hero of MRI. Carr believed wholeheartedly in serendipity, humility, and world peace, said his daughter, Amanda C. Sozer, Ph.D. In a curious stroke of fate, Carr died shortly before he could deliver the 2008 International Society for Magnetic Resonance in Medicine's Lauterbur Lecture, which honors the memory of the man whose contribution to MRI's development won him the 2003 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine.

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