Nobel laureate Sir Peter Mansfield passes away

Nobel laureate Sir Peter Mansfield, who developed Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI), has died at the age of 83 on Wednesday. Mansfield, an English physicist born in 1933, was a Professor at the University of Nottingham starting from 1964 until 1994, when he retired. He was awarded the Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine in



2003, along with late American chemist Paul Lauterbur, for discovering Magnetic Resonance Imaging, a technique used by medical specialists to generate images of the human body’s anatomy. MRI uses magnetic fields, radio waves, and field gradients to detect damage, such as cancer, in various parts of the body.