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Peter Mansfield. Sir Peter Mansfield FRS [1][2] (9 October 1933 – 8 February 2017) [3] was an English physicist who was awarded the 2003 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine, shared with Paul Lauterbur, for discoveries concerning Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI). Mansfield was a professor at the University of Nottingham. [4][5][6][7][8][9]
Feb 3, 2021 · Peter Mansfield's rise from humble origins to founding father of magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) is an inspirational and remarkable story. His first scientific contributions were in the field of solid state nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR), and it was whilst trying to develop an NMR version of X-ray crystallography that he developed the underpinning methodology for MRI.
- P. G. Morris Cbe
- 2021
Oct 9, 2021 · It's people like Peter who have helped to make this Russell Group uni world class, and put Nottingham on the map in the process. From failing his eleven-plus exams and leaving school at fifteen, to being the only Notts scientist to receive a Nobel Prize for his contribution to MRI research, Mansfield’s story is one of sheer grit and determination to succeed against all odds.
In Memoriam: Sir Peter Mansfield (1933–2017) Sir Peter Mansfield, who died on February 8, 2017, was the co-inventor of MRI and a pioneer of solid-state NMR. His origination of MRI and subsequent development of many of the key ideas that still underpin this remarkable, noninvasive imaging technique was most prominently
Biographical. I was born on 9th October 1933 in Lambeth, London, the youngest of three brothers. I grew up in Camberwell, ten minutes walk from Camberwell Green, the epicentre of the Borough. My father, Sidney George Mansfield was the eldest son in a family of five sons and four daughters. My father worked for the South Metropolitan Gas Company ...
Mar 9, 2017 · Mansfield, who died on 8 February, was born in London in 1933, in the most ordinary of circumstances. His father was a gas fitter, his mother a waitress. His school education, disrupted by war ...
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Feb 10, 2017 · Peter Morris, physics professor at Nottingham who worked with Mansfield since the 1970s, said: “MRI has lost the rock on which it was founded. Sir Peter’s pioneering research has ...
