Nottingham Post published Sir Peter supports novel idea to help Queen's Medical Centre...

A Nottingham-based academic whose breakthrough research helped to pioneer medical scans has lent his support to an optician's book appeal.Sir Peter Mansfield, a former professor at the University of Nottingham, is a noted physicist who was awarded the Nobel Prize in 2003 after inventing the MRI (magnetic resonance imaging) scanner.The 81-year-old, who retired from the university four years ago but is still involved in research, is supporting a new appeal by his local Specsavers store which