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Encyclopedia > Peter Mansfield
Peter Mansfield

Born October 9, 1933(1933-10-09)
Nationality British
Institutions University of Nottingham
Known for Magnetic Resonance Imaging
Notable awards Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (2003)
For the historian specialising in Arabs and the Middle East, see Peter Mansfield (historian).

Sir Peter Mansfield, FRS, (born 9 October 1933), is a British physicist who was awarded the 2003 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for his discoveries concerning magnetic resonance imaging (MRI). The Nobel Prize was shared with Paul Lauterbur, who also contributed to the development of MRI. Sir Peter is a professor at the University of Nottingham. is the 282nd day of the year (283rd in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ... Year 1933 (MCMXXXIII) was a common year starting on Sunday (link will display full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar. ... The University of Nottingham is a leading research university in the city of Nottingham, in the East Midlands of England. ... MRI redirects here. ... Image File history File links Nobel_prize_medal. ... Emil Adolf von Behring was the first person to receive the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine, for his work on the treatment of diphtheria. ... Peter Mansfield was born in 1928 in Ranchi,India, and was educated at Winchester and Cambridge. ... For other uses, see Royal Society (disambiguation). ... is the 282nd day of the year (283rd in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ... Year 1933 (MCMXXXIII) was a common year starting on Sunday (link will display full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar. ... Not to be confused with physician, a person who practices medicine. ... Year 2003 (MMIII) was a common year starting on Wednesday of the Gregorian calendar. ... Emil Adolf von Behring was the first person to receive the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine, for his work on the treatment of diphtheria. ... MRI redirects here. ... Paul Christian Lauterbur, (born May 6, 1929) is an American chemist who shared the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 2003 with Peter Mansfield for his work which made the development of magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) possible. ... The University of Nottingham is a leading research university in the city of Nottingham, in the East Midlands of England. ...


The Nobel Prize in Physics in 1952, which went to Felix Bloch and Edward Purcell, was for the development of nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR), the scientific principle behind MRI. For decades magnetic resonance was used mainly for studying the chemical structure of substances, and Mansfield's first project in this field was to develop a portable, transistorised Earth's field NMR (EFNMR) spectrometer in the late 1950s. It was not until the 1970s with Lauterbur's and Mansfield's developments that NMR could be used to produce images of the body. Mansfield is credited with showing how the radio signals from MRI can be mathematically analyzed, making interpretation of the signals into a useful image a possibility. He is also credited with discovering how fast imaging could be possible by developing the MRI protocol called echo-planar imaging. Echo-planar imaging allows T2* weighted images to be collected many times faster than previously possible. It also has made functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) feasible. Hannes Alfvén (1908–1995) accepting the Nobel Prize for his work on magnetohydrodynamics [1]. List of Nobel Prize laureates in Physics from 1901 to the present day. ... Felix Bloch (October 23, 1905 – September 10, 1983) was a Swiss physicist, working mainly in the USA. // A stamp from Guyana commemorating Felix Bloch. ... Edward Mills Purcell (August 30, 1912 - March 7, 1997) was an American physicist who shared the 1952 Nobel Prize for Physics for his independent discovery (1946) of nuclear magnetic resonance in liquids and in solids. ... NMR redirects here. ... The introduction to this article provides insufficient context for those unfamiliar with the subject matter. ... Functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) is the use of MRI to measure the haemodynamic response related to neural activity in the brain or spinal cord of humans or other animals. ...


Mansfield came from humble beginnings in South East London, attending secondary school in Peckham. He left school at 15, and became a printer. He took A levels in night school. He then studied physics at Queen Mary College, London, graduating with a B.Sc. in 1959 and a Ph.D. in 1962.[1] , Peckham is an area of London, England, in the London Borough of Southwark, located 3. ... Affiliations: University of London Association of Commonwealth Universities 1994 Group Website: http://www. ... B.S. redirects here. ... Doctor of Philosophy, abbreviated Ph. ...


He has worked in the Department of Physics at the University of Nottingham since 1964. The University of Nottingham is a leading research university in the city of Nottingham, in the East Midlands of England. ...


References

  1. ^ Queen Mary, University of London Notable Alumni and Staff. Retrieved on 2007-09-23.

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Leland H. Hartwell / Tim Hunt / Paul Nurse (2001) · Sydney Brenner / H. Robert Horvitz / John E. Sulston (2002) · Paul Lauterbur / Peter Mansfield (2003) · Richard Axel / Linda B. Buck (2004) · Barry Marshall / Robin Warren (2005) · Andrew Fire / Craig Mello (2006) · Mario Capecchi / Martin Evans / Oliver Smithies (2007) Desert Island Discs is a long-running BBC Radio 4 programme. ... Winners of the Nobel Prize are scientists, writers and peacemakers who have been awarded in their field of endeavour, and who are known collectively as either Nobel laureates or Nobel Prize winners. ... Emil Adolf von Behring was the first person to receive the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine, for his work on the treatment of diphtheria. ... Leland H. Hartwell (born October 30, 1939, in Los Angeles, California) is president and director of the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center in Seattle, Washington. ... Dr. Richard Timothy (Tim) Hunt (b. ... Sir Paul M. Nurse, FRS, (b. ... To meet Wikipedias quality standards, this article or section may require cleanup. ... H. Robert Horvitz is an American biologist best known for his research on the nematode worm Caenorhabditis elegans. ... Sir John Edward Sulston PhD, FRS (born March 27, 1942) was educated at Pembroke College, Cambridge graduating in 1963. ... Paul Christian Lauterbur, (born May 6, 1929) is an American chemist who shared the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 2003 with Peter Mansfield for his work which made the development of magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) possible. ... Richard Axel, M.D. (born July 2, 1946, New York City) is an American scientist whose work on the olfactory system won him and Linda B. Buck, a former post-doctoral scientist in his research group, the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 2004. ... Linda B. Buck, Ph. ... Barry James Marshall, FRS FAA (born 30 September 1951 in Kalgoorlie, Western Australia) is an Australian physician and Professor of Clinical Microbiology at the University of Western Australia. ... J. Robin Warren (born June 11, 1937 in Adelaide) is an Australian pathologist and researcher who is credited with the 1979 discovery of the bacterium Helicobacter pylori. ... Andrew Z. Fire Andrew Zachary Fire (born on April 27th 1959) is an American professor of pathology and of genetics at the Stanford University School of Medicine. ... Craig C. Mello, PhD Craig Cameron Mello (born October 18, 1960 in New Haven, Connecticut) is one of the laureates of the 2006 Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine, along with Andrew Z. Fire, for the discovery of RNA interference. ... Mario Renato Capecchi (born 6 October 1937) is an Italian-born American molecular geneticist and a co-winner of the 2007 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine. ... Sir Martin Evans is a British scientist, he is credited with discovering embryonic stem cells in 1981, and for the development of the knockout mouse Categories: Geneticists | Scientist stubs ... Oliver Smithies (born July 23, 1925) is a British-born American geneticist and Nobel laureate,[1] credited with the discovery of gel electrophoresis in 1950, and the simultaneous discovery, with Mario Capecchi, of the technique of homologous recombination of transgenic DNA with genomic DNA, a much more reliable method of...

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NAME Mansfield, Peter
ALTERNATIVE NAMES
SHORT DESCRIPTION English physicist known for magnetic resonance imaging
DATE OF BIRTH 9 October 1933
PLACE OF BIRTH London, England
DATE OF DEATH
PLACE OF DEATH
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Mansfield, Sir Peter (1933- ), British physicist and cowinner of the 2003 Nobel Prize in physiology or medicine for his contributions to the development of magnetic resonance imaging (MRI).
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Mansfield later went on to study conducting with James Yannatos, chairman of Harvard's conducting department, and with nationally prominent Pops conductor and arranger Newton Wayland.
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