Mansfield, Peter

Peter Mansfield was born in London on October 9, 1933. At the age of 15, he left school and worked in a printing house, and at age 18 he went to serve in the army. In the army, Mansfield became interested in rocket science , passed the required exams, and entered Queen Mary College in London. In 1959 he graduated from college, in 1962 he did the dissertation on the development of NMR spectrometer and received a Ph.D. After a dissertation, he worked at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign for two years. After an internship in the United States in 1964, Mansfield accepted an offer from the University of Nottingham , where he continued to work in the field of NMR spectrometry. He was an honorary professor at the University of Nottingham (1994).

The previously known method of nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR), for the development of which Felix Bloch and Edward Parsell received the Nobel Prize in physics in 1952, was used before the work of Paul Lauterbur and Peter Mansfield mainly for the study of molecular structure. The work of Lauterbur and Mansfield made it possible to use the method to obtain images of the whole organism.

Mansfield showed how the radio signal received from the device can be mathematically processed and interpreted into an image.

In 2003, Mansfield, along with Lauterbur, received the Nobel Prize in medicine "for the invention of the method of magnetic resonance imaging ."

• Raymond Damadian

• Information about Peter Mansfield on the website of the Nobel Committee
• Peter Mansfield page on the University of Nottingham website
• Nobel Prize 2003 Press Release
• Peter Mansfield US Patents