Background
Farrell, Richard Alfred was born on April 22, 1939 in Providence, Rhode Island, United States. Son of John Francis and Frances Theresa (Hawkins) Farrell.
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Richard Alfred Farrell
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Bachelor of Science, Providence College, 1960. Master of Science, U. Massachusetts,1962. Doctor of Philosophy, Catholic U. American, 1965.
Career
Teaching assistant U. Massachusetts, 1960-1962. Research associate Catholic University, 1962-1964. Physicist Newport (Rhode Island) Underwater Ordnance Station, summers 1960-1961.
Physicist Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory, 1965, principal physicist, 1970, group supervisor theoretical problems group, 1977-1995, associate director medical research Institute advanced Science and Technology of Medicine, 1995.
Principal investigator National Eye Institute Research Grant, 1973, laser cornea damage Army Medical Research and Development Command, 1977, electromagnetic scattering Army Research Office, 1980-1981. Associate professor biomedical engineering and ophthalmology Johns HopkinsMed.
Institute, 1992, chairman part-time masters degree program engineering and applied physics biomedicine The Whiting School of Engineering, 1993. consultant in field.NIH. National Science Foundation grantee, 1962-1964. National Aeronautics and Space Administration postdoctoral grantee, 1964-1965.
Achievements
Membership
Member Association Research in Vision and Ophthalmology, American Physical Society, Optical Society American, biomedical Engineering Society, International Society for Eye Research.
Connections
Married Marie Joan Hetu, June 17, 1961. Children: Joanne Marie, Richard Alfred.
