Tributes paid to pioneering Oxford engineer Professor Brian Bellhouse
Tributes have been paid to the Oxford engineer and entrepreneur Professor Brian Bellhouse, who has died at the age of 80. Founder of one of the most successful companies ever to be spun out of Oxford, Professor Bellhouse has been praised as a generous and pioneering member of the University community. Brian Bellhouse read Mathematics at Magdalen College, and then obtained his DPhil in the Department of Engineering Science at Oxford in 1964. He was appointed as a University Lecturer in the same Department and elected as a Tutorial Fellow at Magdalen College in 1966. He became a Professor of Engineering Science in 1998. He set up the Departmentā??s highly successful Medical Engineering Unit, which he ran until he retired. He was appointed an Emeritus Fellow of Magdalen College on his retirement in 2004.
