Professor Robert Winston

Robert Maurice Lipson Winston, Baron Winston (born July 15, 1940) is a British scientist, politician, and television presenter. Image File history File links Lord_Winston. ... Image File history File links Lord_Winston. ... July 15 is the 196th day (197th in leap years) of the year in the Gregorian Calendar, with 169 days remaining. ... Year 1940 (MCMXL) was a leap year starting on Monday (the link is to a full 1940 calendar). ... The physicist Albert Einstein is probably the most famous scientist of our time. ... Politics of the United Kingdom take place in the framework of a parliamentary, representative democratic monarchy, in which the Prime Minister is the head of government. ... A television presenter is a British term for a person who introduces or hosts television programmes. ...

Life and career

Winston was born in London to Laurence Winston and Ruth Winston-Fox. His mother became mayor of the former Borough of Southgate, now absorbed into the London Borough of Enfield in 1961. This article is about the capital of England and the United Kingdom. ... Southgate is an area in the London Borough of Enfield. ... The London Borough of Enfield is the most northerly London borough and forms part of Outer London. ...

He graduated from The London Hospital Medical College, London University, in 1964 with a degree in medicine and achieved prominence as an expert in human fertility. He developed tubal microsurgery and various techniques in reproductive surgery, including sterilization reversal. Having joined Hammersmith Hospital as a registrar in 1970, he was appointed to a Wellcome Research Fellowship and then as Associate Professor at the Catholic University of Leuven (Belgium) in 1975. He was a scientific advisor to the World Health Organisation's programme in human reproduction from 1975 - 1977. He joined the The Royal Postgraduate Medical School, London as consultant and Reader , in 1977. After conducting research as Professor of Gynaecology at the University of Texas at San Antonio in 1980, he returned to the UK becoming Dean of the Institute of Obstetrics and Gynaecology in London until its entry into Imperial College in 1997. As Professor of Fertility Studies at Hammersmith, Winston led the team which pioneered preimplantation genetic diagnosis, which identifies defects in human embryos. He was the president of the British Association for the Advancement of Science from 2004 to 2005. He is currently researching male germ cell stem cells and methods for their genetic modification. He has published over 300 scientific papers in peer-review journals. 1964 (MCMLXIV) was a leap year starting on Wednesday (the link is to a full 1964 calendar). ... Fertility is the ability of people or animals to produce healthy offspring in abundance, and of the earth to bear fruit. ... Sterilization is a surgical technique leaving a male or female unable to procreate. ... Registrar may refer to: In education, a registrar or registry is an official in an academic institution (a college, university, or secondary school) who handles student records. ... The Katholieke Universiteit Leuven (Catholic University of Leuven in English - also the translated name of its French-speaking sister university) or K.U. Leuven is a Flemish university, located in the town of Leuven in Flanders, the Dutch-speaking (northern) region of Belgium. ... The British Association or the British Association for the Advancement of Science or the BA is a learned society with the object of promoting science, directing general attention to scientific matters, and facilitating intercourse between scientific workers. ...

Robert Winston is a Fellow of the Academy of Medical Sciences (FMedSci), the Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists (FRCOG), and of the Royal College of Physicians of London (FRCP), and is an Honorary Fellow of the Royal College of Surgeons (FRCS Edin), Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons (FRCPS Glasg), and the Instititute of Biology (FIBiol). He holds honorary doctorates from fourteen universities.

Winston is well-known for presenting many BBC television series, including Superhuman, The Secret Life of Twins, Child of Our Time, "Human Instinct" and the BAFTA award-winner The Human Body. A traditional Jew with an orthodox background, [1] he also presented The Story of God, exploring the development of religious beliefs and the status of faith in a scientific age. He also presented the BBC documentary "Walking with Cavemen" a major BBC series which, although it presented some controversial views about early man, was endorsed by a number of leading anthropologists and other scientists. One arguable theory which the series presented was that Homo sapiens sapiens has a uniquely developed imagination which helped them to survive. His documentary film "Threads of Life" won the international science film prize in Paris, in 2005. His recent BBC series "Child Against All Odds" studied the ethical questions which are raised by the practice of IVF treatment; the accompanying book is a wide-ranging discussion of the history and implications of reproductive engineering. He is appearing on The Archers radio soap as a fertility consultant, though not as himself. The British Broadcasting Corporation, usually known as the BBC (and also informally known as the Beeb or Auntie) is one of the largest broadcasting corporations in the world in terms of audience numbers, employing 26,000 staff in the UK alone and with a budget of more than £4 billion. ... Child of Our Time is a documentary commissioned by the BBC and presented by Professor Robert Winston which follows up on the lives of 25 babies who were born around the turn of the third millennium as they grow from infancy, through childhood and on to becoming young adults. ... The British Academy of Film and Television Arts (BAFTA), is a British organisation that hosts annual awards shows for film, television, childrens film and television, and interactive media. ... Orthodox Judaism is the formulation of Judaism that adheres to a relatively strict interpretation and application of the laws and ethics first canonized in the Talmudic texts (The Oral Law) and as subsequently developed and applied by the later authorities known as the Gaonim, Rishonim, and Acharonim. ... The Archers is a British radio soap opera broadcast on the BBCs main spoken-word channel, Radio 4. ...

Winston was made a life peer in 1995 as Baron Winston, of Hammersmith in the London Borough of Hammersmith and Fulham. He sits on the Labour Party benches in the House of Lords and takes the government whip. He speaks regularly in the House of Lords on education, science, medicine and the arts. He was recently Chairman of the House of Lords Select Committee on Science and Technology and is a board member of the Parliamentary Office of Science and Technology. In the United Kingdom, Life Peers are appointed members of the Peerage whose titles may not be inherited (those whose titles are inheritable are known as hereditary peers). ... Hammersmith is an urban centre in the London Borough of Hammersmith and Fulham in London, approximately 5 miles (8km) west of Charing Cross on the north bank of the River Thames. ... The front of Hammersmith and Fulham town hall is a mixture of styles, with a modern block bolted on to, and obscuring, what would have once been an architecturally consistent red-brick portico. ... The Labour Party has been, since its founding in the early 20th century, the principal political party of the left in the United Kingdom. ... This article is about the British House of Lords. ... In politics, a whip is a member of a political party in a legislature whose task is to ensure that members of the party attend and vote as the party leadership desires. ... POST is the UK Parliament’s in-house source of independent analysis of public policy issues related to science and technology. ...

In 1973, Winston married Lira Helen Feigenbaum and has three children.

Current posts

• Chancellor, Sheffield Hallam University (since 2001)
• Emeritus Professor of Fertility Studies, Imperial College London
• Director of NHS Research and Development, Hammersmith Hospitals Trust

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Awards

• Cedric Carter Medal, Clinical Genetics Society, 1993
• Victor Bonney Medal for contributions to surgery, Royal College of Surgeons, 1993
• Gold Medallist, Royal Society of Health, 1998
• Fellow 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 (the Royal Society of Medicine) 2003
• Aventis Prize, Royal Society 2004
• Al-Hammadi Medal, Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh 2005

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Television documentaries (as presenter)

• 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 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
• Child Against All Odds" BBC 2006

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Selected bibliography

• "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 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)
• "Child Against All Odds" (2006)

External links

• Official Site of Professor Robert Winston
• Professor the Lord Winston
• University Chancellor – Sheffield Hallam University
• President of the BA, Biography at the British Association
• Another biography at the BA
• Age of the Sage: Robert Winston