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Peter Mansfield

1933 - 2017

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Sir Peter Mansfield (9 October 1933 – 8 February 2017) was an English physicist who was awarded the 2003 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine, shared with Paul Lauterbur, for discoveries concerning Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI). Mansfield was a professor at the University of Nottingham. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Peter Mansfield is the 283rd most popular physicist (up from 377th in 2019), the 911th most popular biography from United Kingdom (up from 1,386th in 2019) and the 37th most popular British Physicist.

Peter Mansfield is most famous for his work in the field of Magnetic Resonance Imaging.

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Among PHYSICISTS

Among physicists, Peter Mansfield ranks 283 out of 851. Before him are John Robert Schrieffer, David Gross, Mihajlo Pupin, William Daniel Phillips, Valentin Ceaușescu, and Rolf Maximilian Sievert. After him are Jean-François Pilâtre de Rozier, Antoine César Becquerel, Ash Carter, Syukuro Manabe, Joseph Plateau, and Charles Wheatstone.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1933, Peter Mansfield ranks 76. Before him are Bobby Robson, David McCallum, Willie Nelson, Cormac McCarthy, Godfried Danneels, and Richard S. Castellano. After him are Horst Buchholz, Wilbur Smith, Sam Jones, Yevgeny Yevtushenko, Teresa Berganza, and Waichiro Omura. Among people deceased in 2017, Peter Mansfield ranks 63. Before him are Sam Shepard, Hiroto Muraoka, Danielle Darrieux, Elsa Martinelli, Harry Dean Stanton, and Graham Taylor. After him are John Heard, Jean Rochefort, Yevgeny Yevtushenko, Yisrael Kristal, Al Jarreau, and Giovanni Sartori.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, Peter Mansfield ranks 911 out of 8,785. Before him are Banksy (1970), Anne Conway (1631), John Pople (1925), Margaret Rutherford (1892), Henry, Duke of Cornwall (1511), and Graham Taylor (1944). After him are Eric Drummond, 7th Earl of Perth (1876), William Huggins (1824), Louise of Great Britain (1724), Christian Bale (1974), Bruce Chatwin (1940), and Philip Pullman (1946).

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Among PHYSICISTS In United Kingdom

Among physicists born in United Kingdom, Peter Mansfield ranks 37. Before him are John Cockcroft (1897), William Shockley (1910), C. P. Snow (1905), Osborne Reynolds (1842), Anthony James Leggett (1938), and Daniel Rutherford (1749). After him are Charles Wheatstone (1802), Freeman Dyson (1923), Dennis W. Sciama (1926), John Stewart Bell (1928), Stephen Hales (1677), and Joseph Swan (1828).

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