2003

Banquet speech

Sir Peter Mansfield delivering his banquet speech. Sir Peter Mansfield’s speech at the Nobel Banquet, December 10, 2003 Your Majesties, Your Royal Highnesses, Honoured Laureates, Ladies and Gentlemen:- The sparkle, the jubilation, the sheer grandeur of the Nobel Fest, is a most splendid occasion in which we, by your grace, have been invited…

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Interview

Interview transcript Welcome to the Nobel e-museum and to meet one of this year’s laureate’s in medicine and physiology for 2003, Sir Peter Mansfield. Now first of all congratulations once again to the prize. Sir Peter Mansfield: Thank you. I suppose you have heard this thousands of times in the past days?…

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Biographical

I was born on 9th October 1933 in Lambeth, London, the youngest of three brothers. I grew up in Camberwell, ten minutes walk from Camberwell Green, the epicentre of the Borough. My father, Sidney George Mansfield was the eldest son in a family of five sons and four daughters. My father worked for the South…

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Interview

Interview, December 2018 Peter Agre © Nobel Media. Photo: Alexander Mahmoud “Huckleberry Finn is my role model” Peter Agre was awarded the chemistry prize for discovering aquaporins, channels that allow water to travel between our body’s cells. In this interview he speaks about how he became interested in science, and shares his influences and inspirations…

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Interview

Interview transcript Welcome to the Nobel E-Museum and also to this interview, Professor Peter Agre and Roderick MacKinnon. I would like to congratulate you to the Nobel Prize. It’s a prize of the scientific community to the most prominent scientists in the community, I would say. And I would like you to…

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