Peter Douglas Dunn

OBE The Most Excellent Order of the British Empire is a British order of chivalry, rewarding contributions to the arts and sciences, work with charitable and welfare organisations, and public service outside the civil service. It was established o ...

(20 January 1927 – 7 March 2014) was a British engineer. After working at the

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, Harwell and jointly holding numerous patents on heat pipes and associated technology with power stations, Prof Peter Dunn joined the Department of Applied Physics in 1964 and started the Department of Engineering at the University of Reading in 1968. As head of department, alongside his friend Dr

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and through the Institute of Mechanical Engineers, Peter Dunn was on the first committees working with

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or Appropriate Technology. These committees led to the formation of the Intermediate Technology Development Group (now Practical Action). He encouraged the Departmental research group to contribute to the developing sectors of intermediate technology. Peter Dunn started the world's first Master of Science Degrees in

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in 1977. The research group contributed to early UK work on wind energy. The group included Dr Musgrove who went on to be the first Chairman of the British Wind Energy Association (now called RenewableUK) and then on to head of development at National Wind Power. In the

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Professor Peter Douglas Dunn was honoured with an OBE, Order of the British Empire "For services to the development of innovative energy technologies". (Oxon, Oxfordshire) Gamos was founded in 1989 by Peter Dunn and Simon Batchelor. Gamos was proposed as an organisation to expand the work of the department in the combination of poverty alleviation and renewable energy. It has since expanded its work to include poverty alleviation and Information and Communication Technology. Gamos is a UK organisation specialising in development aid. Using the word related to hieros gamos but not drawing on its meaning, the organisation has enabling frameworks with the UK

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. It has been cited by that agency as having been the eighth most active contractor within DFID's Engineering Knowledge and Research Programme. Gamos contributed to the Commission for Africa report, provoking a multi donor action that supported regulatory change concerning mobile phones in Africa. It was also responsible for the special journal paper, "Good Practice Paper on ICTs for Economic Growth and Poverty Reduction" published by the

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. Dunn died on 7 March 2014.

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Dunn, Peter 1927 births 2014 deaths Academics of the University of Reading English mechanical engineers Officers of the Order of the British Empire