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Peter Mansfield

1933 - 2017

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Sir Peter Mansfield (9 October 1933 – 8 February 2017) was a British physicist who was awarded the 2003 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine, shared with Paul Lauterbur, for discoveries concerning Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI). Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Peter Mansfield has received more than 283,013 page views. His biography is available in 50 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 48 in 2019). Peter Mansfield is the 301st most popular physicist (down from 258th in 2019), the 1,028th most popular biography from United Kingdom (down from 853rd in 2019) and the 39th most popular British Physicist.

Peter Mansfield is most famous for his work in the field of Magnetic Resonance Imaging.

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    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 50

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 8.85

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 3.56

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Among PHYSICISTS

Among physicists, Peter Mansfield ranks 301 out of 717. Before him are William Daniel Phillips, Yuri Oganessian, Freeman Dyson, Valentin Ceaușescu, Paul-Jacques Curie, and Pierre Louis Dulong. After him are William Whewell, Hélène Langevin-Joliot, Friedrich Hund, Kenneth G. Wilson, Edmond Becquerel, and Horst Ludwig Störmer.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1933, Peter Mansfield ranks 87. Before him are Richard S. Castellano, Piero Manzoni, Jerzy Kosiński, Lamine Diack, Yuri Oganessian, and Nino Vaccarella. After him are David Hamilton, Cees Nooteboom, Teresa Berganza, Manu Dibango, Walter Kasper, and Lea Massari. Among people deceased in 2017, Peter Mansfield ranks 83. Before him are Karl-Otto Apel, Ljubiša Samardžić, Elsa Martinelli, Anita Pallenberg, Nicolai Gedda, and John G. Avildsen. After him are Zhou Youguang, Tom Regan, Karin Dor, Colin Dexter, Anne Wiazemsky, and Kim Jong-nam.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, Peter Mansfield ranks 1,028 out of 7,765. Before him are Lord Randolph Churchill (1849), J. Michael Kosterlitz (1943), Cynthia Lennon (1939), Samuel Bellamy (1689), Edward Seymour, 1st Duke of Somerset (1506), and Colin McRae (1968). After him are William Whewell (1794), Edith Cavell (1865), Henry Briggs (1561), Charles Lightoller (1874), James Meade (1907), and Alexander II of Scotland (1198).

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Among PHYSICISTS In United Kingdom

Among physicists born in United Kingdom, Peter Mansfield ranks 39. Before him are Anthony James Leggett (1938), John Cockcroft (1897), Joseph Swan (1828), Patrick Blackett (1897), Brian Josephson (1940), and Freeman Dyson (1923). After him are William Whewell (1794), Stephen Hales (1677), John Stewart Bell (1928), James Jeans (1877), William Sturgeon (1783), and John Henry Poynting (1852).

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