Hundreds of students and lecturers lined the streets to remember Sir Peter Mansfield as his funeral cortege passed by the centre where he created MRI.
The procession passed the Sir Peter Mansfield Imaging Centre at the University of Nottingham, where hundreds stood in silence to remember.
Sir Peter invented the MRI scanner at the university which has led to Magnetic Resonance Imaging being used in hospitals all over the world.
He died aged 83 on Wednesday, February 8, less than a month after a £9 million investment was unveiled to upgrade facilities named after him at both the university and the QMC.
Former University of Nottingham student Chris McCarthy was showing his son around the campus when they stopped to pay their respects.
Chris said: “He’s very fondly remembered by the university and he’s probably one of the most famous academics to be associated with Nottingham so he’s a great credit to here and the city.
“It was very moving to honour a chap who has given so much of his working life to the university creating the MRI scanning facility.
“He has changed so many lives and he is an example for people to follow.”
Video: Former student Chris McCarthy pays his respects to Sir Peter Mansfield
His granddaughters paid tribute to him last month, saying he should be remembered for ‘saving millions of lives.’
The cortege left Chilwell at 11.15am this morning (Wednesday March 1) and entered the west entrance of the University of Nottingham, completing a loop of the campus before heading back out the same way.
The cortege then headed to St. John’s Church on Middle Street in Beeston for a service for those who knew Peter or wanted to pay their respects.
A private interment for close family and friends followed.
Sir Peter won a Nobel Prize in 2003 for his contribution to physiology and medicine and had a tram named after him in 2015.
He was born in London in 1933 and moved to Nottingham to become a lecturer at the department of physics at the University of Nottingham in 1964.
In 1968, Sir Peter was appointed senior lecturer and it was during this time he and his colleagues were credited with the invention of the MRI scanner.
