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The MRI Team
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The MRI Team

University of Aberdeen, Aberdeen, Scotland, active 1980
About MeIn August 1980 a team of visionary medical physicists, including Jim Hutchison and Bill Edelstein, led by Professor John Mallard at the University of Aberdeen took medical science to a new level. Together they introduced Mark 1 to the world, the first pioneering full body Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI) scanner.

On 28 August 1980, following years of research, the team made history when their revolutionary machine produced the first clinically-useful MRI image of a patient’s internal organs. MRI is considered to be a safer tool for diagnostics than X-rays and builds up a picture of the human body through high frequency radio signals. Although initially built as an experimental machine, Mark 1 was used immediately at Aberdeen Royal Infirmary for diagnosis and research. John and his team’s technology transformed medical diagnosis across the world.
Professor John Rowland Mallard
Kingsthorpe, Northampton, England, 1927 - 2021
Falling from Grace by Gwen Hardie
Fife, Scotland, born 1962
Doll Dressed As A Principal Nursing Officer (PNO)
Aberdeen, Scotland, born 1929
R D Lawrence
Aberdeen, Scotland, 1892 - 1968
Sir Patrick Manson
Oldmeldrum, Aberdeenshire, Scotland, 1844 - 1922
John Barbour
Aberdeen, Scotland, 1316 - 1395
Class Attendance Record
1868 - 1899
George Shepherd Registered Chemist and Druggist by Pharmaceutical Society of Great Britain
Aberdeen, Scotland, 1913 - 1985
John James Rickard MacLeod
Clunie, Perthshire, Scotland, 1876 - 1935
Horn Beaker
Aberdeen, Scotland, 1825 - 1997
Neil Fachie
Aberdeen, Scotland, born 1984
Brigadier Frost Pasha
Aberdeen, Scotland, 1838 - 1902
Craigie, Perth and Kinross, Scotland, 1880 - 1959
Ruth Beardsworth
Bremen, Germany, born 1943
Bridgeton, Glasgow, Scotland, born 1955
Matthew Hay
Denny, Stirlingshire, Scotland, 1855 - 1932
Eric Gill
Brighton, England, 1882 - 1940