Peter Richardson (engineer)

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Professor
Peter Richardson
Born
Peter Damian Richardson

(1935-08-22)22 August 1935
Died21 April 2020(2020-04-21) (aged 84)
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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References

  1. Launder, Brian (2023). "Peter Damian Richardson. 22 August 1935 — 21 April 2020". Biographical Memoirs of Fellows of the Royal Society. 75: 411–432. doi: 10.1098/rsbm.2023.0013 .
  2. 1 2 3 4 5 "Richardson, Peter". Brown University . Retrieved 21 June 2017.
  3. Lois Reynolds; Tilli Tansey, eds. (2005). The Recent History of Platelets in Thrombosis and Other Disorders. Wellcome Witnesses to Contemporary Medicine. History of Modern Biomedicine Research Group. ISBN   978-0-85484-103-5. OL   27084715M. Wikidata   Q29581691.