In Memoriam
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The International Society for Magnetic Resonance in Medicine wishes to acknowledge the passing of its members and colleagues, all of whom have contributed significantly to the MR community. If you would like to submit an obituary for posting on this page, please send the text and/or link along with an image, if desired, to in_memoriam@ismrm.org.
The International Society for Magnetic Resonance in Medicine and its staff assume no responsibility for the accuracy of the given information.
Jaap Valk, M.D.
23 July 1929 – 13 April 2024
Esben T. Petersen, Ph.D.
10 October 1973 – 19 August 2023
John E. Tanner, Jr. Ph.D.
1930 – 11 August 2023
Honorary Member of ISMRM
Watch the video tribute by Derek Jones
Rao P. Gullapalli, Ph.D.
28 August 1958 – 18 April 2023
Gerald (Jerry) B. Matson, Ph.D.
25 August 1938 – 19 February 2023
E. James Potchen, M.D.
02 December 1932 – 20 August 2022
James S. Hyde, Ph.D.
10 May 1931 – 13 August 2022
Raymond Vahan Damadian
16 March 1936 – 03 August 2022
W. Thomas Dixon, Ph.D.
1945 – 01 August 2022
Robert J. Gillies, Ph.D.
27 Feb 1953 – 7 June 2022
Francis W. Smith, M.D.
1943 – 2022
Weston A. Anderson
28 March 1928 – 03 November 2021
Richard R. Ernst, Ph.D.
14 August 1933 – 04 June 2021
Nobel Prize in Chemistry 1991
John R. Mallard, OBE, FRSE, FREng
14 January 1927 – 25 February 2021
Gheorghe D. Mateescu, Ph.D.
11 November 1928 – 22 January 2021
Paul E. Bullwinkel, Ph.D.
06 April 1952 – 21 December 2020
Professor Iain Wilkinson
7 Nov 1964 – 27 Oct 2020
Martin E. Packard, Ph.D.
03 October 1921 – 30 July 2020
Richard Patrick Magrath, III
27 September 1988 – 28 July 2020
Sanjiv “Sam” Gambhir, M.D., Ph.D.
23 November 1962 – 18 July 2020
Edward F. Jackson, Ph.D.
08 December 1961 – 02 June 2020
University of Wisconsin-Madison obituary
Additional obituary
Paul Margosian, Ph.D.
01 August 1940 – 02 April 2020
Walter Robb
25 April 1928 – 23 March 2020
Alan C. McLaughlin, Ph.D.
10 October 2019
William E. Doherty, Jr., M.E.Eng.
11 February 1934 – 09 October 2019
Ian R. Young, Ph.D.
11 January 1932 – 27 September 2019
Jerome R. Singer, Ph.D.
1921 – 30 July 2019
Tsutomu Nakada, M.D.,Ph.D.
1950 – July 1, 2018
Vanessa A. Sluming, Ph.D.
14 July 1951 – 10 May 2018
Daniel A. Finelli, M.D., FACR
1959 – 25 July 2018
Sarah J. Nelson, Ph.D.
26 February 1954 – 03 April 2019
Alexander R. Margulis, M.D.
31 March 1921 – 07 September 2018
James Hutchison, Ph.D.
04 September 2018
Wolfgang Steinbrich, M.D.
07 March 2018
Seymour Koenig, Ph.D.
16 July 1927 – 19 February 2018
William G. Bradley, Jr., M.D., Ph.D.
30 July 1948 – 20 November 2017
M. Joan Dawson, Ph.D.
09 February 1944 – 27 July 2017
Mike Boska, Ph.D.
17 November 1957 – 13 May 2017
Sir Peter Mansfield
09 October 1933 – 08 February 2017
Klaas Nicolay, Ph.D.
29 June 1951 – 10 January 2017
Kang Cheng, Ph.D.
30 August 1962 – 08 November 2016
Erwin L. Hahn, Ph.D.
09 June 1921 – 20 September 2016
Atsuko Heshiki, M.D., Ph.D.
17 December 1938 – 08 September 2016
Graham C. Wiggins, D.Phil.
25 October 1962 – 07 September 2016
Goran Bačić, Ph.D.
19 December 1951 – 02 September 2016
Andrzej Jesmanowicz, Ph.D.
13 May 1944 – 15 May 2016
Laurence P. Clarke, Ph.D.
27 December 1943 – 16 April 2016
Nicholas Alexander Matwiyoff, Ph.D.
August 1937 – February 2015
Istvan Pirko, M.D.
11 June 1971 – 30 November 2014
Ferenc A. Jolesz, M.D.
21 May 1946 – 31 December 2014
Michael H. Buonocore, M.D., Ph.D.
24 October 1954 – 21 June 2014
If you wish to express your condolences to the Buonocore family, please send to Roberta@ismrm.org. Your communications will be forwarded to the family’s representative.
Lise Vejby Søgaard
02 July 1969 – 18 February 2014
John (Jack) W. Belliveau
1959 – 14 February 2014
William A. Edelstein
1944 – 10 February 2014
Mutsumasa Takahashi
ca. 1935 – 16 September 2013
Robert E. Steiner
1918 – 12 September 2013
Ingrid S. Gribbestad
01 December 1961 – 20 April 2013
George Alan Holland
25 February 1961 – 01 January 2013
Sir Paul Callaghan
A Legacy in Memory of Sir Paul Callaghan GNZM, FRS, FRSNZ
Prospectus
19 August 1947 – 24 March 2012
Manbir Singh
07 October 1945 – December 2011
Norman Ramsey
27 August 1915 – 05 November 2011
Gary Glazer
1950 – 16 October 2011
Philip Batchelor
30 December 1967 – 30 August 2011
Stefan Fischer
18 July 1963 – 28 June 2011
Christopher Sotak
1952 – 28 May 2011
H. Glenn Reynolds
1946 – 27 May 2011
Laurance D. Hall
18 March 1938 – 28 August 2009
Bill Moore
1936 – 25 March 1984
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