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Peter Richardson

FCGI, FRS
Born
Peter Damian Richardson

(1935-08-22)22 August 1935
West Wickham, Kent, England
Died 21 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 (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.

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