| Description | Transcript of a Witness seminar entitled 'Making the Human Body Transparent: The Impact of Nuclear Magnetic Resonance and Magnetic Resonance Imaging' held at the Wellcome Institute for the History of Medicine, London, on 2 July 1996. The meeting, chaired by Professor Robert Steiner, examined 'the original discovery of nuclear magnetic resonance and its application in spectroscopy and in magnetic resonance imaging during the past half century.' This transcript is published in 'Wellcome Witnesses to Twentieth Century Medicine', E.M.Tansey, D.A.Christie, L.A.Reynolds (eds), volume 2, London: Wellcome Trust, 1-74. Small note on card in Professor Mallard's handwriting 'pg.68 Mansfield - "his invention" '. Two letters accompany this transcript:
1)Letter to Professor Brian Worthington, Division of Radiology, University Hospital and Medical School, Nottingham from Professor Mallard dated 8 September 1995 requesting a copy of a slide after their meeting at the Rontgen Centenary Congress of the agenda papers for the meeting of the MRC (Medical Research Council) which led to the Aberdeen Research Grants. Professor Mallard thanks Professor Worthington for including Aberdeen's significant contribution to the development of MRI from theory to practical application which he feels is overlooked by Peter (Mansfield). Professor Mallard also indicates that this attitude led to 'U.K MRI' losing the MacRobert Prize for fear of controversy.
2)Letter from Professor Mallard to Dr Tilli Tansey, Historian of Modern Medical Science, Wellcome Institute for the History of Medicine dated 27 November 1998 thanking her for sending a copy of 'Making the Human Body Transparent: The Impact of Nuclear Magnetic Resonance and Magnetic Resonance Imaging' and requesting further information on responses to the witness seminar and whether the transcript was being sent to American Universities to temper American publications which he feels over-emphasise the American part in MRI development.
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