[Congressional Record Volume 159, Number 78 (Wednesday, June 5, 2013)]
[House]
[Page H3110]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




                   IN TRIBUTE TO DR. TRIFON LASKARIS

  (Mr. TONKO asked and was given permission to address the House for 1 
minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. TONKO. I rise today to pay tribute to a remarkable individual and 
prolific inventor whose pioneering research into medical imaging has 
helped to transform modern-day medicine.
  Dr. Trifon Laskaris, a chief scientist at General Electric's Global 
Research Center, was recently awarded his 200th United States patent. 
It is a benchmark previously reached by only one other GE researcher--
the inventor of the lightbulb and founder of the company's research 
center, Thomas Edison.
  For the past four decades, Dr. Laskaris has worked at GE Global 
Research on technology to advance magnetic resonance imaging, or MRI. 
Without the work of Dr. Laskaris and his team, MRI would not be where 
it is today--a vital diagnostic tool used in hospitals around the 
world. There is no telling how many millions of people are leading 
healthier lives today because of the technology that Dr. Laskaris 
developed.
  I congratulate Dr. Trifon Laskaris on this milestone achievement; and 
on behalf of this body and the citizens of the 20th Congressional 
District of New York, I thank him for his lifelong dedication to 
scientific research in the service of humanity.

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