Prof Peter Wells, CBE, FRS, FREng, FMedSci, FLSW

Career: res asst United Bristol Hosps 1960-71, prof of med physics Welsh Nat Sch of Med (now Cardiff Univ) 1972-74, area physicist Avon AHA (teaching) 1975-82; chief physicist: Bristol and Weston HA 1982-91, United Bristol Healthcare NHS Tst 1991-2001; Univ of Bristol: hon prof in clinical radiology 1986-2000, hon dir Centre for Physics and Engrg Res in Med 1996-2000, prof of physics and engrg in med 2000-01, emeritus prof of physics and engrg in med 2001-; distinguished research prof Cardiff Univ 2004-; over 300 pubns mainly on med applications of ultrasonics, ed-in-chief Ultrasound in Med and Biology 1992-2006; former pres: Br Inst of Radiology, Br Med Ultrasound Soc, Instn of Physics and Engrg in Med; vice-pres World Fedn for Ultrasound in Med and Biology; Hon DTech Univ of Lund, Hon MD Erasmus Univ, Hon DSc Aston Univ; FInstP 1970, FIET (FIEE 1978), FREng 1983, Hon FRCR 1987, Hon FIPEM 1988, FRS 2003, FMedSci 2005, FLSW 2010

Books and Publications: Physical Principles of Ultrasonic Diagnosis (1969), Ultrasonics in Clinical Diagnosis (1972, 3 edn 1983), Biomedical Ultrasonics (1977), Computers in Ultrasonic Diagnostics (1977), New Techniques and Instrumentation in Ultrasonography (1980), Scientific Basis of Medical Imaging (1982), Emerging Technologies in Surgery (1984), Clinical Applications of Doppler Ultrasound (1988, 2 edn 1995), Advances in Ultrasound Imaging and Instrumentation (1993), The Perception of Visual Information (1993, 2 edn 1997), The Invisible Light (1995)