TY - JOUR T1 - Professor Neil B. Pride (1931–2016) JF - European Respiratory Journal JO - Eur Respir J DO - 10.1183/13993003.02343-2016 VL - 49 IS - 1 SP - 1602343 AU - Peter J. Barnes Y1 - 2017/01/01 UR - http://erj.ersjournals.com/content/49/1/1602343.abstract N2 - Neil Blair Pride, Emeritus Professor of Respiratory Medicine at Imperial College, died in Ealing on November 12th 2016 aged 85 years. He was a world-renowned respiratory physician and physiologist, who made enormous contributions to our understanding of common lung diseases. Professor Neil B. Pride MD, FRCP, FERSBorn in Croydon on July 29th 1931, to a general practitioner father, he was educated at Bryanston School, Dorset. He studied preclinical medicine at Christ's College, Cambridge and continued to clinical studies at St Mary's Medical School, London before qualifying as a doctor in 1956.In 1962, after clinical training posts in London and Cambridge, he went to work with Solbert Permutt in the Department of Medicine at Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore. It was here that he developed his physiological research, and he and Sol published a landmark paper on the determinants of maximal expiratory flow from the lung [1 … ER -