Peter Lord - a founder the Institute of Acoustics and pioneering academic: Obituary

摘要

Afounder member and Past President of the Institute, Peter Lord, died on 2 December following a long and often difficult illness as a result of a stroke some 15 months earlier. Peter was born on 19 January 1929 and lived his childhood in Hayfield, north of Manchester. He attended Manchester Grammar School during the difficult war years and chose to extend his A level studies at Stockport Technical College whilst gaining some practical experience working as a research assistant at the Shirley Institute, Manchester. Although his initial ambition was to become an architect, he made the pragmatic decision, in 1948, to enrol for a physics degree at Manchester, graduating with honours in 1951. He continued with post graduate studies at UMIST which led to an MSc and then a PhD in polymer physics.