Sir Peter Mansfield
Curriculum Vitae
| 1. | University Education | |
| 1956–1959 | Full time honours course in physics at Queen Mary College, London. Awarded First Class Honours. | |
| 1959–1962 | Full time course for PhD at Queen Mary College, London. Awarded PhD in September 1962. | |
| 2. | Appointments held | |
| 1962–1964 | Appointed Research Associate at the Physics Department, University of Illinois, Urbana, Illinois, U.S.A. | |
| 1964 | Appointed Lecturer in Physics, University of Nottingham. | |
| 1968 | Promoted to Senior Lecturer in Physics. | |
| 1970 | Promoted to Reader in Physics. | |
| 1972–1973 | Senior Visitor at the Max-Planck-Institute for Medical Research, Heidelberg. | |
| 1979 | Appointed Professor of Physics at Nottingham. | |
| 1983–1988 | Medical Research Council Professorial Research Fellow. | |
| 1988–1994 | Resumed Professorship in Physics at Nottingham. | |
| 1994 | Emeritus Professor of Physics, Nottingham. | |
| 3. | Awards and Prizes | |
| 1983 | Gold Medal of the Society of Magnetic Resonance in Medicine. | |
| 1984 | Royal Society Wellcome Foundation Gold Medal and Prize. | |
| 1988 | Duddell Prize and Medal, Institute of Physics. | |
| 1988 | British Institute of Radiology, Silvanus Thompson Medal. | |
| 1989 | International Society of Radiology and the Antoine Béclère Institute in Paris, Antoine Béclère Medal for 1989 in Radiology. | |
| 1990 | Joint award of the Royal Society Mullard Medal and Prize. | |
| 1992 | International Society of Magnetic Resonance (ISMAR) prize, awarded jointly with P Lauterbur. | |
| 1993 | Barclay Medal, British Journal 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 of Clinical MRI. | |
| 1996 | Joint award of First Annual Editor’s Excellence Award, J CAT. | |
| 1997 | Joint award of the Rank Prize. | |
| 2003 | Joint Award of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine with Professor Paul Lauterbur. | |
| 4. | 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 of Science Honoris Causa, Jagellonian University, Department of Physics, Krakow, Poland, June 2000. | ||
| Conferred Doctor of Science Honoris Causa, University of Nottingham, June 2004. | ||
| Elected Fellow (hon) Royal College of Physicians, July 2004. | ||
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