William D. Richardson | |
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| Born | 18 August 1951  Belfast |
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| Institutions | UCL Wolfson Institute |
| Thesis | Quantitative and qualitative electron microscope observations on condensed nucleoprotein in avian Erythrocytes, and in spermatids of a mollusc, Nucella lapillus |
William David Richardson FRS FLS (born 18 August 1951) has been Director of the UCL Wolfson Institute since 2012.[1]
He was educated at the Royal Belfast Academical Institution, the University of Manchester (BSc Physics, 1973) and King's College London (PhD, 1978).[2] He was a Lecturer in Molecular Genetics at University College London from 1985 to 1990 and has been Professor of Biology at the UCL Wolfson Institute since 1993.
He was made a Fellow of the Royal Society in 2013. He is also a Fellow of the Linnean Society of London.