Robert Winston

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Robert Winston (2005)

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

Life

Winston was promoted to Life Peer on December 18, 1995 as Baron Winston , of Hammersmith in the London Borough of Hammersmith and Fulham . In the House of Lords he speaks frequently about science, medicine and the arts. He has been married to Lira Helen Feigenbaum since 1973, with whom he has three daughters.

Current positions

Awards

  • 1993 Cedric Carter Medal, Clinical Genetics Society
  • 1993 Victor Bonney Medal for contributions on surgery, Royal College of Surgeons
  • 1998 Gold Medalist, Royal Society of Health
  • 1998 Member of the 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 honorary doctorates

TV documentaries

  • Your Life in their Hands. BBC 1979-1987
  • Making babies. BBC 1995
  • The human body. BBC, titled 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 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 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-authored 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. In: BBC News. December 2, 2005
  • Why do we believe in God? In: The Guardian. October 13, 2005

Individual evidence

  1. London Gazette . No. 54252, HMSO, London, p. 17450 ( PDF , English).

Web links

Commons : Robert Winston  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files