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Mansfield, Peter
British scientist (1933-) who shared the 2003 Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine with the American scientist Paul C. Lauterbur for discoveries concerning 'magnetic resonance imaging.' (Magnetic resonance imaging is better known perhaps…
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