Peter Richardson (engineer)

Professor
Peter Richardson
FCGI, FRS
Born
Peter Damian Richardson

(1935-08-22)22 August 1935
West Wickham, Kent, England
Died21 April 2020(2020-04-21) (aged 84)
Providence, Rhode Island
Resting placeSwan Point Cemetery
NationalityUnited Kingdom
Alma materImperial 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]

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. ^ a b c d e "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.


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