John Mansfield Thomson

John Thomson

one whose clinical acumen, painstaking and accurate observations and valuable writings had gained for him a reputation which was world-wide and which added a lustre to British Medicine. John Thomson was born in Edinburgh in 1856, and, after receiving his education at the Academy and University, he studied in London, Berlin and Vienna. His interest was early directed towards diseases of children...

Peter Mansfield - Nobel Lecture

The topic of magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) started for us at Nottingham in the early summer of 1972. During a discussion with one of my graduate students, Peter Grannell and my post-doc Dr Allan Garroway, concerning multiple-pulse line narrowing experiments in solids, the idea occurred to me to use the line narrowing technique as a means of effectively removing dipolar interactions in a mate...

John Bathurst Thomson MD 1813-1850. An insight into the times of a regimental medical officer.

Heinz von Foerster and the Mansfield Amendment

Heinz von Foerster was the founder and director of the Biological Computer Laboratory (BCL) at the University of Illinois in Urbana-Champaign. BCL existed from 1957 to 1976. In 1976 Heinz retired and moved to California. One revealing story about Heinz and the Biological Computer Laboratory concerns the Mansfield Amendment, which led to the closing of BCL. I was a graduate student at the Univer...

Doug Thomson

This paper will present an e-procurement model to facilitate online B2B exchanges. Large organizations in Australia and around the world are increasingly implementing e-procurement, which has increased the need for services of intermediaries such as ‘emarkets’ to facilitate the process. However, both being new and unproven require theories and models to support their roles in the online procure...