Robert Winston

Robert Maurice Lipson Winston, Baron Winston ( born July 15, 1940) is a British physician, politician ( Labour Party ) and moderator.

Life

Winston was raised in 1995 for Life Peer. In the House of Lords, he often talks about science, medicine and the arts. He is married since 1973 with Lira Helen Feigenbaum, with whom he has three daughters.

Current duties

  • Professor of Science and Society at Imperial College London
  • Chancellor, Sheffield Hallam University ( since 2001)
  • Emeritus Professor of Fertility Studies, Imperial College London
  • Past Director of NHS Research and Development, Hammersmith Hospitals Trust
  • Chairman of the Royal College of Music Council

Awards

  • Cedric Carter Medal, Clinical Genetics Society, 1993
  • Victor Bonney Medal for contributions on operations, Royal College of Surgeons, 1993
  • Gold Medallist, Royal Society of Health, 1998
  • Member of the Academy of Medical Sciences ( FMedSci ), 1998
  • British Medical Association Gold Award for Medicine in the Media, 1999
  • Michael Faraday Prize, Royal Society, 1999
  • Edwin Stevens Medal ( Royal Society of Medicine ) 2003
  • Aventis Prize, Royal Society 2004
  • Al- Hammadi Medal, Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh 2005
  • 14 honorary doctorates

TV documentaries

  • Your Life In Their Hands, BBC 1979-1987
  • Making Babies, BBC 1995
  • The Human Body, BBC, Which went by the name, Intimate Universe:. The Human Body in the United States, BBC 1998 The series won three BAFTA Awards.
  • The Secret Life of Twins, BBC 1999
  • Child of Our Time, Following the lives of a group of children, all born in 2000, as they grow to the age of 20; BBC in 2000, and Annually thereafter.
  • Superhuman, BBC 2001 ( won the Wellcome Trust Award for Medicine and Biology )
  • Walking with Cavemen, BBC 2003
  • Human Instinct ( Documentary ) BBC 2002 Emmy nomination
  • The Human Mind, BBC 2003
  • Threads of Life, about DNA, BBC 2003 ( won the international " Science Prize " in Paris)
  • How to sleep better
  • The Story of God, BBC 2005
  • How to Improve Your Memory BBC 2006
  • A Child Against All Odds BBC 2006

Selected Bibliography

  • Reversibility of Sterilization "(1978)
  • Co - author " Tubal Infertility " (1981)
  • " Infertility - a sympathetic approach" (1985 )
  • " Getting Pregnant " (1989)
  • "Making Babies" (1996 )
  • "The IVF Revolution " (1999)
  • " Superhuman " (2000)
  • "Human Instinct " (2003)
  • "The Human Mind" ( 2004). Nominated for the Royal Society Aventis Prize
  • " What Makes Me Me " (2005) Royal Society Aventis Prize
  • " Human" (2005) BMA Award for "best popular medicine book"
  • "The Story of God" (2005)

"Body " (2005) " A Child Against All Odds" (2006) "Play It Again" (2007) "It's Elementary " (2007)

  • When science meets God, Robert Winston, BBC News, Friday, 2 December 2005.
  • Why do we believe in God?, Robert Winston, The Guardian, Thursday October 13, 2005
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