MRI pioneer and Nobel prize winning physicist dies at 83
Peter Mansfield, physicist and winner of the Nobel Prize for his work in helping to invent MRI scanners died at the age of 83, according to a statement by the University of Nottingham in the United Kingdom.
Mansfield was born in London and joined the University in central England in 1964 as a lecturer in physics.
In 2003, he and U.S. chemist Paul Lauterbur won the Nobel Prize in medicine for their work in developing MRI. Mansfield later became the first human subject to test a whole-body MRI scanner.
Their work became revolutionary, as MRI could detect disease by showing internal organs without having to perform surgery.
“Few people can look back on a career and conclude that they have changed the world,” said David Greenaway, vice chancellor of the University of Nottingham in a statement. “In pioneering MRI, that is exactly what Sir Peter Mansfield has done, he has changed our world for the better.”
In 1993, Mansfield was knighted by Queen Elizabeth II.
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