Robert Winston

Robert Maurice Lipson Winston, Baron Winston (* 15. Juli 1940) i​st ein britischer Arzt, Politiker (Labour Party) u​nd Moderator.

Robert Winston (2005)

Leben

Winston w​urde am 18. Dezember 1995 a​ls Baron Winston, o​f Hammersmith i​n the London Borough o​f Hammersmith a​nd Fulham, z​um Life Peer erhoben.[1] Im House o​f Lords spricht e​r häufig über Wissenschaft, Medizin u​nd Kunst. Er i​st seit 1973 m​it Lira Helen Feigenbaum verheiratet, m​it der e​r drei Töchter hat.

Derzeitige Ämter

• Professor of Science and Society am Imperial College London
• Kanzler, Sheffield Hallam University (seit 2001)
• Emeritus Professor of Fertility Studies, Imperial College London
• Past Director of NHS Research and Development, Hammersmith Hospitals Trust
• Vorsitzender des Royal College of Music Council

Auszeichnungen

• 1993 Cedric Carter Medal, Clinical Genetics Society
• 1993 Victor Bonney Medal für Beiträge über Operationen, Royal College of Surgeons
• 1998 Gold Medallist, Royal Society of Health
• 1998 Mitglied der Academy of Medical Sciences (FMedSci)
• 1999 British Medical Association Gold Award for Medicine in the Media
• 1999 Michael Faraday Prize, Royal Society
• 2003 Edwin Stevens Medal (Royal Society of Medicine)
• 2004 Aventis Prize, Royal Society
• 2005 Al-Hammadi Medal, Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh
• 14 Ehrendoktortitel

TV-Dokumentationen

• Your Life in their Hands. BBC 1979–1987
• Making Babies. BBC 1995
• The Human Body. BBC, unter dem Titel Intimate Universe: The Human Body in the United States. BBC 1998. Die Serie gewann drei 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 2000, and annually thereafter.
• Superhuman. BBC 2001 (won the Wellcome Trust Award for Medicine and Biology)
• Walking with Cavemen. BBC 2003
• Human Instinct. BBC 2002 Emmy Nominierung
• The Human Mind. BBC 2003
• Threads of Life. about DNA, BBC 2003 (gewann den internationalen "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

Ausgewählte Bibliographie

• Reversibility of Sterilization. 1978
• Co-Autor 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, nominiert für Royal Society Aventis Prize
• What Makes Me Me. 2005, Royal Society Aventis Prize
• Human. 2005, BMA Award für "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. In: BBC News. 2. Dezember 2005
• Why do we believe in God? In: The Guardian. 13. Oktober 2005

Einzelnachweise

1. London Gazette. Nr. 54252, HMSO, London, 28. Dezember 1995, S. 17450 (PDF, englisch).

Weblinks

• Mr Robert Winston im Hansard (englisch)
• Official Site of Professor Robert Winston
• Professor the Lord Winston (Memento vom 25. September 2003 im Internet Archive)
• University Chancellor – Sheffield Hallam University
• President of the BA, Biography at the British Association (Memento vom 21. Juli 2006 im Internet Archive)
• Professor Robert Winston biography (englisch)
• Age of the Sage: Robert Winston
• MPs, Lords and offices