University News Review — September 2018
October 18, 2018
September saw many University of Nottingham news stories in the headlines… The dirtiest area of the airport The story that airport security trays carry more viruses than toilet surfaces, hit the national headlines this month. According to pandemic scientists at the University of Nottingham and the Finnish National Institute for Health and Welfare, the plastic …
Happy 80th birthday, Sir Peter!
October 15, 2013
In 1933, construction work began on the Golden Gate Bridge in San Francisco, US President Franklin D Roosevelt took office and attempted to steer the country through the Great Depression, cinema audiences flocked to see Faye Wray in the classic movie King Kong and Germany’s Adolf Hitler began his inexorable rise to power. And, in …
UoN inventors made Honorary Freemen of the City
July 10, 2013
Two scientists whose discoveries while based in Nottingham led to the development of two groundbreaking developments in medicine — the MRI scanner and ibuprofen — became Honorary Freemen of the City on Monday. Sir Peter Mansfield was a lecturer, reader and professor at The University of Nottingham from 1960-93 where he invented MRI and his …
Leading scientists made Honorary Freeman of the City of Nottingham
May 24, 2013
Two Nottingham scientists whose discoveries led to the development of groundbreaking developments in medicine – the MRI scanner and ibuprofen – are set to become Honorary Freemen of the City. Sir Peter Mansfield, the British inventor of MRI, led a research team at The University of Nottingham between 1960 and 1993. Sir Peter was awarded …
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