Professor Sir Peter Mansfield, FRS

Photo of Sir Peter

Emeritus Professor of Physics, University of Nottingham.
Joint winner of the Nobel Prize for Medicine, October 2003.

Born October 1933, London. Married to wife Jean, with two daughters.

Interests outside Physics:

Languages
Flying--holds a private pilot's licence for both aeroplanes and helicopters
Reading

Education:

Cork Street Primary.
William Penn School (click for further details)
Worked in a print shop before joining the army. Took A'levels at night school.
Queen Mary College, University of London, BSc 1959, Phd 1962

Employment History:

1962: Research Associate, Department of Physics, University of Illinois
1964: Lecturer, Department of Physics, University of Nottingham
1968: Senior Lecturer, Department of Physics, University of Nottingham
1970: Reader, Department of Physics, University of Nottingham
1972-3: Senior Visitor, Max Planck Institute fur Medizinische Forschung, Heidelberg
1979: Professor, Department of Physics, University of Nottingham

Awards

1983 Gold Medal of the Society of Magnetic Resonance in Medicine, for pioneering scientific contributions to biology and medicine.
1984 joint award of the Royal Society Wellcome Foundation Gold Medal and Prize.
1988 Duddell Prize and Medal by the Institute of Physics
1988 Silvanus Thompson Medal by the British Institute of Radiology.
1989 Antoine Béclère Medal from the International Society of Radiology and the Antoine Béclère Institute in Paris.
1990 joint award of the Royal Society Mullard Medal and Prize for technological innovation in NMR imaging leading to industrial development.
1992 jointly with P. Lauterbur the International Society of Magnetic Resonance (ISMAR) prize in recognition of "contributions to the fundamentals of NMR and its applications, especially NMR imaging".
1993 Barclay Medal by the British Journal of Radiology for "contributing materially to the advancement of the science and practice of radiology".
1993 First Silver Plaque of the European Society of Magnetic Resonance in Medicine and Biology.
1995 Garmisch-Partenkirchen Prize for MRI.
1995 Gold Medal of the European Congress of Radiology and the European Association of Radiology.
1995 Gold Medal of the journal Clinical MRI for services to magnetic resonance.
1996 R. Coxon and J. Hykin, received the First Annual Editor's Excellence Award for outstanding scientific research. for the paper "EVI of the Brain at 3.0 T" published in JCAT.
1997 together with former students, R. Rzedzian and I. Pykett, Rank Prize for work on EPI.
2003, Nobel Prize for Medicine together with Paul Lautebur.

Honours

Elected Fellow of Queen Mary College (now Queen Mary and Westfield College), London University in June 1986
Elected Fellow of the Royal Society, London in February 1987.
Elected President of the Society of Magnetic Resonance in Medicine, 1987-88.
Knighted in the New Year's Honours for 1993.
Elected Honorary Fellow of the Royal College of Radiology in 1993.
Elected to Honorary Membership of the British Institute of Radiology in 1993.
Elected Honorary Member of the Society of Magnetic Resonance Imaging in 1994.
Elected Fellow of the Society of Magnetic Resonance in 1994.
Conferred Doctor Honoris Causa, University of Strasbourg, 1995.
Conferred Honorary Doctorate, University of Kent at Canterbury 1996.
Honorary Fellow of the Institute of Physics, Jan 1997.
Conferred Doctor Honoris Causa, Jagellonian University of Physics, Krakow, Poland, Jun 2000.

To contact:

Telephone: 0115-951-4740
Fax: 0115-951-5166
Email: pamela.davies@nottingham.ac.uk
Address: Magnetic Resonance Centre, University of Nottingham, NG7 2RD, UK.

See also the page maintained by the School of Physics and Astronomy.