Peter Richardson (engineer)

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.