Sir Peter Mansfield FRS passed away at the age of 77. He was an English physicist who was awarded the 2003 Nobel Prize in Physiology and 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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Mansfield graduated with a BSc from Queen Mary in 1959. His final-year project, supervised by Jack Powles, was to construct a portable, transistor-based spectrometer to measure the Earth's magnetic field.
Towards the end of this project Powles offered Mansfield a position in his NMR (Nuclear Magnetic Resonance) research group.
Powles' interest was in studying molecular motion, mainly liquids. Mansfield's project was to build a pulsed NMR spectrometer to study solid polymer systems. He received his PhD in 1962; his thesis was titled Proton magnetic resonance relaxation in solids by transient methods.[10]
Peter Mansfield, a significant contributor to the development of Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI) technology for medical imaging, passes away at the age of 77.