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But his was not a story of huge resource and big financial backing. It was Mallard’s leadership, tenacity and can-do approach that drove a scientific breakthrough still pivotal to medical treatment today. Professor Mallard saw the ‘big picture’ before anyone else His Aberdeen story began in 1965 when he relocated to the city from London to become the University’s first Chair of Medical physics. He began to assemble a team, appointing Jim Hutchison to work on a project exploring the poss...

The University of Aberdeen announced the death of its inaugural professor of medical physics, who led an Aberdeen team in building the first whole-body MRI scanner.

The pioneering medical physicist Professor John Mallard, who led the team that developed the Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI), has died aged 94.