Richard S. C. Cobbold
FF, University of Toronto, Canada

Richard S. C. Cobbold received the B.Sc. degree in physics from Imperial College, University of London, in 1956 and obtained the M.Sc. and Ph.D. degrees from the University of Saskatchewan, Canada, in 1961 and 1965, respectively. Since 1966 he has been with the Institute of Biomaterials and Biomedical Engineering where he was director from 1974 to 1983. He is currently Professor Emeritus in the institute and in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering. His research interests and those of his laboratory center around fundamental problems of ultrasound, real-time ultrasound imaging simulation, and imaging within bone. He is the author of three books, a number of research papers, and several book chapters. His most recent book, Foundations of Biomedical Ultrasound, was published by Oxford University Press in 2006. He was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada in 1976 and was appointed Canada-UK Rutherford lecturer in 1995.