Honorific Prefix: | Professor |
Honorific Suffix: | FCGI, FRS |
Birth Name: | Peter Damian Richardson |
Birth Date: | 22 August 1935 |
Birth Place: | West Wickham, Kent, England |
Death Place: | Providence, Rhode Island |
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.
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, 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.