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