is the author of two groundbreaking books on prenatal and perinatal experiences and the effects of nutrition on babies in the womb. In the mid-1970s he directed the Sparsholt Psychotherapeutic Centre, Winchester. At the end of the 1970s he joined the British Medical Association secretariat and edited its publication, News Review. He was a founding member of the Medical Campaign Against Nuclear Weapons and the UK-USSR Medical Exchange Programme. The group prepared two papers describing the scenario of an H-bomb on Boston, Massachusetts, and the effects of radiation fallout on children, and presented them to, among others, President Gorbachev. Ridgway was one of the executive staff members who went to Oslo, in 1985, when the organization and he were awarded the Nobel Peace Prize.