MRI inventor Sir Peter Mansfield dead after revolutionary machine saved millions of lives around the world
Sir Peter, a professor at the University of Nottingham, was well-known for his part in the creation of Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI)
TRIBUTES have been paid to Nobel Prize-winning physicist Sir Peter Mansfield who invented who died at the age of 83.
Sir Peter, a professor at the University of Nottingham, was well-known for his part in the creation of Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI).
The University of Nottingham's head of school and physics and astronomy, Professor Michael Merrifield, tweeted this afternoon: "I regret to announce the death of Professor Sir Peter Mansfield, esteemed colleague and Nobel Prize winner for his founding work on MRI."
Born in London in October 1933, Sir Peter grew up in Camberwell but during the Second World War he was evacuated, initially to Sevenoaks and then to Torquay in Devon.
Sir Peter focused on Nuclear Magnetic Resonance (NMR) after gaining his doctorate, .
He married his wife, Jean Margaret Kibble, in September 1962, and in 1964 he became a lecturer at University of Nottingham in the Department of Physics.
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Sir Peter's work included applying NMR to imaging which lead to the first MRI scanner.
This eventually led to the creation of a machine which could provide detailed images of the human anatomy - the first which was Sir Peter's abdomen in 1978.
He was awarded with the Nobel Prize for Physiology and Medicine in 2003 when he was 70-years-old.
His work has meant he has never been forgotten, especially in Nottingham where he has a tram named after him.
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