Professor Peter Richardson | |
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Born | Peter Damian Richardson 22 August 1935 |
Died | 21 April 2020 84) | (aged
Resting place | Swan Point Cemetery |
Nationality | United Kingdom |
Alma mater | Imperial College London |
Professor Peter Damian Richardson FCGI, FRS [1] (born 1935) was a British biomedical engineer and academic. [2]
He studied at Imperial College London, [2] on a scholarship awarded to him at the age of 16.
He was appointed Professor of Engineering and Physiology at Brown University in 1984, [3] becoming Emeritus upon retirement. He was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1986, [2] and was awarded a Humboldt Prize in 1976, [2] and the Ernst Jung Prize in Medicine in 1986. [2]
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