Tuesday, June 18 2019 20:09

ArmInfo.On June 18, RA Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan received the famous scientist, inventor and doctor Raymond Tamadyan, one of the founders of the magnetic resonance scanning machine (MRI).

According to the press service of the RA Government, the Prime Minister welcomed the visit of the famous scientist to his homeland, commending his role in the revolutionary scientific inventions in the field of healthcare. "Your visit provides a good opportunity to discuss our visions of the future of Armenia. Our government sees Armenia as a technologically developed country, and having such a compatriot inspires confidence that this problem is solved," said Nikol Pashinyan, adding that Raymond Tamadyan is an exceptional example of the talent of the Armenian people . In turn, the scientist presented his programs to the Prime Minister, touched on the capabilities of the new generation of MRI.

The interlocutors exchanged views on cooperation with the medical and scientific circles of Armenia, the possibilities of recruiting medical institutions of the republic with new generation MRT machines, as well as the development of education and science. Raymond Vahan Damadian is an American scientist and inventor of Armenian origin, one of the founders of the magnetic resonance scanning machine (MRI). He was born in 1936 in New York. The invention of MRI in July 1977 was a revolutionary and monumental event in the development of medicine in the United States, and Damadian was one of the scientists who worked on the development of this machine. However, in 2003, the Nobel Prize in medicine was awarded to another scientist, Peter Mansfield and Paul Lauterbur, for their discoveries and achievements related to MRI. Although the rules made it possible to divide the award into three or less people, Damadian was not announced as one of the recipients. The debate about who played what role in the development of MRI, continued for many years before the announcement of recipients of the Nobel Prize and continues to this day.