Influential clinical geneticist. He was born in Barnstaple, Devon, UK, on April 28, 1939, and died of a stroke Cardiff, Jan 23, 2021, aged 81 years. When Peter Harper returned to the UK 1971 after year USA, he did so with reinforced determination forge career medical genetics, then still its relative infancy. This decision should have prompted him look for work one few British universities wher...