Peter Mansfield
English physicist known for magnetic resonance imaging · United Kingdom · On the map · Scientists · Lived 1933 to 2017 · aged 83
Sir Peter Mansfield 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.
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2017Died8 February 20172007National Inventors Hall of FameAward2003Nobel Prize in Physiology or MedicineAward1995Honorary Doctor of Louis Pasteur UniversityAward1990Mullard AwardAward1988Dennis Gabor Medal and PrizeAward1933Born9 October 1933
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Lived 1933 to 2017 · aged 83
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