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Peter Mansfield

Peter Mansfield, English physicist, Nobel laureate (born 1933)

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Died
2017 · February 8

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Peter Mansfield, English physicist, Nobel laureate (born 1933)

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Peter Mansfield appears on our February 8 calendar for 2017 as a death entry.

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February 8 2017.

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