Armenian-American Raymond Vahan Damadian, M.D., the inventor of the first Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI) scanning machine, passed away at age 86 on August 3, 2022.
Damadian was a physician, medical practitioner, mathematician, and inventor. He was born in New York on March 16, 1936, to an Armenian Genocide survivor.
Dr. Damadian was the first to perform...