Ann. occup. Hyg., Vol. 46, No. 7, pp. 643-644, 2002
© 2002 British Occupational Hygiene Society
Published by Oxford University Press
Obituary: Peter Isaac
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A university may rarely decide that one of its professors is so distinguished that he or she deserves an honorary degree. Peter Isaacs possibly unique distinction for an engineer was that he was awarded a Doctorate of Letters 16 years after his retirement, not as an honorary degree, but by the normal route of submitting a range of publications in a literary field. BOHS knew Peter as its founding secretary and editor of its history, but this was a small part of his many-sided career.
Peter received what he described as