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Dr. Raymond Vahan Damadian

Dr. Raymond Vahan Damadian (1936–2022) was the determined physician-inventor who built the world’s first MRI scanner, driven by a personal mission against cancer and an unyielding belief that science could peer inside the living body without the risks of X-rays. Born March 16, 1936, in Manhattan and raised in Forest Hills, Queens, he was the […]