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Peter Mansfield built an M.R.I. machine in 1978 and was the first person to be scanned by it. “He was the guinea pig,” said one of his graduate students. “He went into the scanner. There was the worry it would knock him dead.”
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Peter Mansfield
Died on February 8, 2017 at age 83
Dr. Mansfield shared a Nobel Prize for discoveries that underpinned the invention of magnetic resonance imaging, the method of peering inside the human body that revolutionized medicine.
Notable Deaths 2017
Remembering Mary Tyler Moore, Chuck Berry, Jerry Lewis, David Rockefeller, Trisha Brown, Glen Campbell, Dick Gregory, Edith Windsor, Sam Shepard, Tom Petty and many others who died this year.