Another initiate of Valentine's Day, 1948, Dr. Paul Christian Lauterbur is another Hall of Fame brother of the Alpha Delta chapter.  After a tour in the military and upon graduating from the University of Pittsburgh in 1962, Lauterbur came up with, researched for, and developed an MRI machine that could differentiate between types of water, something impossible for any other imaging technique in existance at the time.

His first paper on the device submitted to Nature was rejected, but Lauterbur kept his head up and made sure that they reviewed it again; finally, it was published.  The Sidney High School graduate,who grew up fiddling with his own chemistry lab as a kid and who taught at the University of Illinois for over two decades, recieved the Nobel Prize in the autumn of 2003.  He died in 2007, but as University of Illinois Chancellor Richard Herman once said, "Paul's influence is felt around the world every day, every time an MRI saves the life of a daughter or son, a mother or a father" and he is just one more reason the Alpha Delta brothers can be very proud to be.