Peter Townsend
Peter Townsend's music commenced with violin lessons at the age of 4, he has played in quartets and orchestras, researched violin making techniques, lectured on physics of music, and sings (baritone). His research in physics and engineering is unusua
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Peter Townsend's music commenced with violin lessons at the age of 4, he has played in quartets and orchestras, researched violin making techniques, lectured on physics of music, and sings (baritone). His research in physics and engineering is unusually diverse with topics ranging from luminescence, ion implanted waveguide lasers, optical detection of breast cancer (Descartes prize finalist), to archaeology and geology. He has also worked on commercial engineeringproducts. He has PhD and DSc degrees plus honorary doctorates from both the Autonoma Universidad de Madrid and the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences. His scientific outputs include some 550 publications, 7 books plus patents.
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