Peter Mansfield (5) (1933–2017)

Peter Mansfield was born in London, England on October 9, 1933. Partly because of a reorganization of the British school system, he did not finish high school. At the age of 15, he became a printer's apprentice and took evening classes to complete his secondary education. He sent an application to mostrar más the government and the Rocket Propulsion Department hired him to be an assistant. He received an undergraduate degree in 1959 and a doctoral degree in physics in 1962 from Queen Mary College at the University of London. During college, his interest shifted from rockets to physics and nuclear magnetic resonance. He became a professor of physics at The University of Nottingham in England. He was knighted by Queen Elizabeth II in 1993. He received the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 2003 with Paul C. Lauterbur for their work, independent of each other, in studying magnetic resonance imaging. His autobiography, The Long Road to Stockholm: The Story of M.R.I., was published in 2013. He died on February 8, 2017 at the age of 83. (Bowker Author Biography) mostrar menos