Nobel Prize Recipient. Sir Peter Mansfield gained recognition for receiving the 2003 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine with American chemist Paul C. Lauterbur. According to the Nobel Prize committee, the two men received the coveted award "for their discoveries concerning magnetic resonance imaging." His formal education was interrupted during World War II, which resulted in him leaving school, to find work as a printer's assistant and later a position with the Ministry of Supply at the Rocket Propulsion Department. Following two years of National Service with the Army, he completed his high school education and enrolled at Queen Mary College, the University of London, where he studied physics. After earning his doctorate, he joined the faculty at the University of Nottingham, where he was a professor of Physics, while doing research in the area of Nuclear Magnetic Resonance. The 1952 Nobel Prize in Physics, which was awarded to Felix Bloch and Edward Purcell for the development of nuclear magnetic resonance, the scientific principle behind MRI. However, it would be decades of research before the MRI was developed. He devised a method in calculating how Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI) could be analyzed mathematically. Among the result of his work was an image of Mansfield's own abdomen in 1978. He was knighted in 1993. He married and had two children.
Nobel Prize Recipient. Sir Peter Mansfield gained recognition for receiving the 2003 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine with American chemist Paul C. Lauterbur. According to the Nobel Prize committee, the two men received the coveted award "for their discoveries concerning magnetic resonance imaging." His formal education was interrupted during World War II, which resulted in him leaving school, to find work as a printer's assistant and later a position with the Ministry of Supply at the Rocket Propulsion Department. Following two years of National Service with the Army, he completed his high school education and enrolled at Queen Mary College, the University of London, where he studied physics. After earning his doctorate, he joined the faculty at the University of Nottingham, where he was a professor of Physics, while doing research in the area of Nuclear Magnetic Resonance. The 1952 Nobel Prize in Physics, which was awarded to Felix Bloch and Edward Purcell for the development of nuclear magnetic resonance, the scientific principle behind MRI. However, it would be decades of research before the MRI was developed. He devised a method in calculating how Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI) could be analyzed mathematically. Among the result of his work was an image of Mansfield's own abdomen in 1978. He was knighted in 1993. He married and had two children.
Bio by: C.S.
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