Peter Mansfield

Sir Peter Mansfield  (9 October 1933 – 8 February 2017)Tributes to Professor Sir Peter Mansfield University of Nottingham was an English physicist. He was awarded the 2003 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine. He shared with Paul Lauterbur. He was known for his discoveries concerning Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI). Mansfield was a professor at the University of Nottingham.Peter Mansfield interview  on Desert Island DiscsUniversity of Nottingham: Peter Mansfield homepage  

Personal life
Mansfield was born in Lambeth, London. He studied at Queen Mary College, London. Mansfield graduated with a BSc from Queen Mary's in 1959.

Mansfield died in Nottingham, England on 8 February 2017, aged 83.

Awards and honours

 1983 Gold Medal of the Society of Magnetic Resonance in Medicine
 1984 Joint award of the Royal Society Welcome Foundation Gold Medal and Prize.
 1986 Elected Fellow of Queen Mary College (now Queen Mary and Westfield College), London University
 1987 Elected Fellow of the Royal Society (FRS)
 1987 Elected President of the Society of Magnetic Resonance in Medicine
 1988 Awarded Duddell Medal and Prize by the Institute of Physics
 1988 Awarded Silvanus Thompson Medal by the British Institute of Radiology
 1989 Antoine Béclère Medal from the International Society of Radiology and the Antoine Béclère Institute in Paris
 1990 Royal Society Mullard Award (joint with John Mallard & Jim Hutchinson)
 1992 International Society of Magnetic Resonance (ISMAR) prize (joint with P. Lauterbur)
 1993 Knighted
 1993 Silver Plaque of the European Society of Magnetic Resonance in Medicine and Biology
 1993 Elected Honorary Fellow of the Royal College of Radiology and Honorary Member of the British Institute of Radiology
 1994 Elected Honorary Member of the Society of Magnetic Resonance Imaging and Fellow of the Society of Magnetic Resonance
 1995 Garmisch-Partenkirchen Prize for MRI
 1995 Gold Medal of the European Congress of Radiology and the European Association of Radiology
 1997 Honorary Fellow of the Institute of Physics
 2003 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for Medicine with Paul Lauterbur
 2009 was presented with the Lifetime Achievement Award by Prime Minister Gordon Brown, ceremony broadcast on ITV's Pride of Britain Awards

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