Peter B. Denyer

Quick Facts

Full Name	Peter B. Denyer
Occupation	Teacher
Date Of Birth	Apr 27, 1953(1953-04-27)
Age	71
Date Of Death	April 22, 2010,
Birthplace	Littlehampton
Country	United Kingdom
Birth City	England
Horoscope	Taurus

Peter B. Denyer Biography

Peter B. Denyer is one of the most popular and richest Teacher who was born on April 27, 1953 in Littlehampton, England, United Kingdom.

Denyer was born in Littlehampton in West Sussex, the son of Eveline and Robert Denyer. He attended Worthing Technical High School, then went on to Loughborough University in Leicestershire, and graduated with a first-class BSc honours degree in electrical engineering in 1975. He worked briefly at the Government Communications Headquarters (GCHQ) in Cheltenham, the UK intelligence agency that provides signals intelligence to the government and armed services, where he met Fiona Reoch. They married, and he moved to Edinburgh, where she was teaching at George Watson’s College. In Edinburgh he designed LSI circuits for Ferranti Defence Systems, and later for Wolfson Microelectronics, including a digital micrometer and CCD signal processing arrays for sonar pulse compression, while studying part-time for a PhD at the University of Edinburgh. He also worked for a year as cofounder and Director of the LSI design house Denyer-Walmsley Microelectronics Ltd.

In 1980 Denyer became a lecturer at the University of Edinburgh, where he carried out a series of research projects and held multiple consultancies. His first research project there involved the invention of “a method of bit-serial silicon compilation.” Denyer then, in quick succession, became a Reader at the university and then a Professor. According to the Royal Society, Denyer’s “promotion from Reader to Professor set a record – on 1 October 1986 he was appointed Reader, but the very next day he was appointed to the Advent Chair of Integrated Electronics (Venture Capital), becoming the youngest Professor at the University of Edinburgh. Through the venture capitalist Advent, this post carried consultancy links with many other companies.” Carver Mead, a leading figure in VLSI research, said at the time that Denyer was “one of a handful of most creative and innovative workers in the VLSI field…There are, world-wide, perhaps two or three people of any age that combine a comparable depth of scientific understanding, with a demonstrated capability to subject their ideas to real, experimental verification.” Mead invited Denyer to join him at the California Institute of Technology, but largely because Denyer’s Glasgow-born wife wanted to educate their children in Scotland, Denyer did not emigrate.

Peter B. Denyer Net Worth

Peter B. Denyer is one of the richest Teacher from United Kingdom. According to our analysis, Wikipedia, Forbes & Business Insider, Peter B. Denyer 's net worth $5 Million. (Last Update: December 11, 2023)

Peter Brian Denyer (27 April 1953 – 22 April 2010) was a British electronics engineer, academic, scientist, inventor, and entrepreneur who pioneered CMOS image sensor chips for many applications including mobile phones, webcams, video-conferencing cameras, and optical computer mouse. “Undoubtedly, his greatest legacy…was his work in fitting mini-cameras in mobile phones.” wrote the Herald Scotland. From an EE professorship at the University of Edinburgh, he went on to found VLSI Vision Inc., later known as VISION Group plc, an early maker of CMOS image sensors that sold itself to STMicroelectronics. The first academic to grow a Scottish university spin-out company to PLC, he was described by the Royal Society as “a unique combination of electronics engineer, distinguished academic, inventor, company CEO and multiple entrepreneur.”

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In 1997 VVL received a Queen’s Award for Industry. In 1998 Denyer was awarded the Royal Academy of Engineering’s Silver Medal and on 2 March 1998 was appointed a Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh. Denyer also personally received a Queen’s Award for Technology for his work on CMOS systems, as well as the IEEE Millennium Award.

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Ray Ranked on the list of most popular Teacher. Also ranked in the elit list of famous people born in United Kingdom. Peter B. Denyer celebrates birthday on April 27 of every year.

During his last decade, Denyer was involved in the establishment of a series of Scottish high-tech businesses, providing advice and/or financial backing to many of them and creating over 100 jobs. In a 2008 interview, Denyer explained that at that point he was “on my third wave” of start-ups, “six of them. Most of them university spin outs.” He became chair of the firms ATEEDA and QFT; served as an adviser to and director of Dexela, which designed large-area X-ray sensors for mammography; chaired Eleksen Ltd, a tech company which develops applications for sensing fabric; chaired Quantum Filament Technology, commercializing a novel field-emission approach for the next generation of flat displays; and sat on the board of the London-based ERA Foundation, whose purpose is to help invigorate the British economy by enabling the exploitation of electrotechnology research. After Denyer’s death, the ERA Foundation’s chairman, Sir Alan Rudge, described Denyer as “a thoughtful visionary and energetic enthusiast” In addition, Denyer served as chair of Pufferfish, a firm started by Edinburgh students, which produced Pufferspheres, the suspended projectors used at concerts. In 2001 the University of Edinburgh, where he served as an advisor to the Commercialisation Unit, made him an Honorary Professor. According to science writer Michael Kenward, Denyer was driven to entrepreneurship less by the profit motive than by the belief that his work could not change things if handed over “to the slowly grinding wheels of ponderous big companies.”