The Long Road to Stockholm The Story of Magnetic Resonance Imaging - An Autobiography
ISBN: 9780199664542 | 0199664544
Format: HardcoverPublisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Pub. Date: 3/1/2013
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In this autobiography, Sir Peter Mansfield describes his life from war time childhood that initially sparked his interest in physics to his work in magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) that eventually led to the award of the Nobel Prize in 2003. Peter Mansfield grew up in London, but was evacuated to Devon during the blitz and following the V1 and V2 attacks on London. At the end of hostilities, he worked briefly in the printing industry before deciding to pursue his real interests in science by joining the Rocket Propulsion Department at Westcott ... MORE
| The War Years | |
| Rocket Science | |
| Salad Days at University | |
| Marriage and the American Dream | |
| The Wanderers Return | |
| Alt-Heidelberg, du feine | |
| Krakow and the Lauterbur Epiphany | |
| Hounsfield and EMI | |
| The Golden Years | |
| Brief Encounter with Technicare | |
| Patent affairs at Nottingham | ... MORE |
| A New Vice Chancellor | |
| Nobel Prize Speculation | |
| Antagonisms to MRI | |
| Beyond the Nobel | |
| The Epilogue | |
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