Robert Winston, Baron Winston
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Member of the House of Lords Lord Temporal | |
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Assumed office 18 December 1995 Life peerage | |
Personal details | |
Born | Robert Maurice Lipson Winston 15 July 1940 London, England |
Political party | Labour |
Spouse |
Lira Feigenbaum
(m. 1973; died 2021) |
Children | 3, including Ben Winston |
Alma mater | London Hospital Medical College |
Occupation | Surgeon, scientist, television presenter, politician, and peer |
Signature | |
Website | robertwinston |
Robert Maurice Lipson Winston, Baron Winston, peer.
Early life
Robert Winston was born in London to Laurence Winston and Ruth Winston-Fox, and brought up as an Orthodox Jew. His mother was Mayor of the former Borough of Southgate. Winston's father died as a result of medical negligence when Winston was nine years old. Robert has two younger siblings: a sister, the artist Willow Winston, and a brother, Anthony.[3]
Winston attended firstly
Medical career
Winston joined
After conducting research as Professor of Gynaecology at the
He was the president of the
Winston is a Fellow of the
Winston holds strong views about the commercialisation of
Winston has called
Media career
Winston was the presenter of many
, exploring the development of religious beliefs and the status of faith in a scientific age.He presented the BBC documentary
Winston's documentary Threads of Life won the international science film prize in Paris in 2005. His BBC series Child Against All Odds explored ethical questions raised by IVF treatment. In 2008, he presented Super Doctors, about decisions made every day in frontier medicine.
In 2007, Winston appeared in the TV series Play It Again, in which he attempted to learn to play the saxophone, despite not having played a musical instrument since the age of 11, when he learned the recorder.[11]
Among many
He also took part in the 2011 TV series Jamie's Dream School. In recent years, Winston has been featured on The Late Late Show with James Corden in the United States, presenting various entertaining scientific experiments.
Political career
Winston was created a life peer on 18 December 1995 as Baron Winston, of Hammersmith in the London Borough of Hammersmith and Fulham.[12][13][14] He sits on the Labour Party benches in the House of Lords and takes the Labour whip. He speaks frequently in the House of Lords on education, science, medicine and the arts. He was Chairman of the House of Lords Select Committee on Science and Technology and is a board member and vice-chairman of the Parliamentary Office of Science and Technology, which provides advice to both Houses of Parliament.[15] He is a member of Labour Friends of Israel.[16]
Winston has made a number of claims regarding the impact of segregated cycle lanes on air quality and emissions in Central London.
Personal life
In 1973, Winston married Lira Helen Feigenbaum (born 8 August 1949). They had three children, Joel, Tanya and
Winston was a council member of the
Current posts
- Professor of Science and Society, Imperial College London
- Emeritus Professor of Fertility Studies, Imperial College London
- Chairman of the Genesis Research Trust[21]
- Founding member and co-chair with Professor Ruth Armon of the UK-Israel Science Council (since 2017)[22]
Selected former posts
- Chairman of the Council, Royal College of Music 2007–2017[23]
- Council Member, University of Surrey until 2018[24][25]
Honours and 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
- Twenty-three honorary doctorates
- The VLV Award for the most outstanding personal contribution to British television in 2004 [citation needed]
- Honoured by the City of Westminster at a Marylebone tree planting ceremony in July 2011[26][27]
- in 2008.
Honorary degrees
Winston has received at least 23 honorary degrees, These include
Location | Date | School | Honorary doctorate |
---|---|---|---|
England | 14 July 2003 | University of Sunderland | Doctor of Science (D.Sc.) [28] |
England | 8 September 2003 | University of Salford | Doctorate [29] |
England | 2004 | Solent University | Doctor of Technology (D.Tech.) [30] |
England | 2005 | Lancaster University | Doctor of Science (D.Sc.) [31] |
England | University of Manchester Institute of Science and Technology | Doctor of Science (D.Sc.) [32] | |
Scotland | 5 July 2010 | University of Aberdeen | Doctor of Science (D.Sc.) [33][34] |
England | 22 July 2011 | Loughborough University | Doctor of Science (D.Sc.) [35] |
England | 5 September 2014 | Birmingham City University | Doctorate [36][37] |
Israel | 5 November 2015 | Weizmann Institute of Science | Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.) [38] |
Television documentaries
- Your Life in Their Hands, BBC 1979–1987
- Making Babies, BBC 1995
- 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–present
- 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[citation needed]
- How to Sleep Better, BBC 2005
- The Story of God, BBC 2005
- How to Improve Your Memory, BBC 2006
- A Child Against All Odds, BBC 2006
- Super Doctors, BBC 2008
- How Science Changed Our World, BBC 2010
- Inside Britain's Fertility Business, BBC 2016 [39]
Selected published work
- "Reversibility of Female 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), shortlisted for Royal Society Aventis Prize
- "What Makes Me Me" (2005), winner, Royal Society young people's book prize[40]
- "Human" (2005), BMA Award for best popular medicine book
- "ISBN 0-593-05493-8
- "Body" (2005)
- "A Child Against All Odds" (2006)
- "Play It Again" (2007)
- "It's Elementary" (2007)
- "Evolution Revolution" (2009)
- "What Goes On Inside My head" (2010)
- "Science Year By Year" (2011)
- "That's Life" (2012)
- "Bad Ideas?" An Arresting History of Our Inventions: How Our Finest Inventions Nearly Finished Us Off (2010)
- "Utterly Amazing Science" (2014), winner, Royal Society young people's book prize[40]
- "Utterly Amazing Body" (2015)
- "The Essential Fertility Guide" (2015)
- When science meets God, Robert Winston, BBC News, Friday, 2 December 2005.
- Why do we believe in God?, Robert Winston, The Guardian, Thursday, 13 October 2005
References
- ^ "Robert Winston". The Life Scientific. 20 December 2011. BBC Radio 4. Retrieved 18 January 2014.
- ^ a b c d e "List of Fellows". Royal Academy of Engineering.
- ^ a b c d Robert Winston: 'I do have a very dark side', The Daily Telegraph, 15 August 2008
- ^ Lemon TI, I am a man—nothing human is alien to me Student BMJ 2013;21:f7203
- ^ a b c University Chancellor Professor the Lord Winston Sheffield Hallam University
- ^ Scientific Publications in Peer-review Journals, The Official Site of Professor Robert Winston, accessed on 26 October 2008
- ^ "New Chancellor for Sheffield Hallam University". shu.ac.uk. Retrieved 13 November 2018.
- ^ Biography, Official Site of Professor Robert Winston.
- ^ Zakir-Hussain, Maryam (14 July 2022). "Transgender surgery is 'mutilation', Dr Robert Winston says". The Independent. Retrieved 16 July 2022.
- ^ Epiphanies: Lord Robert Winston The Spirit of Things, ABC National Radio, Australia, 4 June 2006
- ^ Play It Again: Robert Winston takes up the saxophone, BBC
- ^ "No. 54217". The London Gazette (Supplement). 18 November 1995. p. 1.
- ^ "No. 54252". The London Gazette. 28 December 1995. p. 17450.
- ^ Lord Winston. Parliament.uk
- ^ "POST Board". UK Parliament. Retrieved 10 May 2019.
- ^ "LFI Supporters in Parliament". Labour Friends of Israel. Retrieved 8 September 2019.
- ISSN 0261-3077. Retrieved 10 May 2019.
- ^ "Centre for Data Ethics and Innovation (CDEI)". GOV.UK. Retrieved 10 May 2019.
- ^ https://www.thejc.com/news/news/obituary-lady-lira-winston-3b5I5Ii6LfOqx8ImevmY7h [bare URL]
- ^ Robert Winston: You ask the questions, The Independent, 17 October 2002
- ^ Charity for Premature birth, miscarriage, IVF. Genesisresearchtrust.com. Retrieved on 2016-05-14.
- ^ "UK-Israel Science Council | British Council". www.britishcouncil.org.il. Retrieved 24 July 2017.
- ^ "Lord Black appointed new Chairman of the Royal College of Music". Royal College of Music. 8 December 2016. Retrieved 10 May 2019.
- ^ Five minute interview with Professor Lord Winston - University of Surrey - Guildford Archived 14 March 2009 at the Wayback Machine. surrey.ac.uk. Retrieved on 2016-05-14.
- ^ "Lord Winston". UK Parliament. Retrieved 10 May 2019.
- ^ Professor Lord Winston marks London tree planting scheme. City of Westminster (17 June 2011)
- YouTube
- ^ "Trailblazer set to be honoured - Chronicle Live". 11 July 2003.
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- ^ "Honorary graduates".
- ^ "Honorary Graduates | Lancaster University".
- ^ "Honorary degree for fertility pioneer - Manchester Evening News". 17 February 2007.
- ^ "Leading scientist and composer among those to be honoured by University | News | The University of Aberdeen".
- ^ "Honorary Graduates".
- ^ "Lord Robert Winston among those to be honoured by Loughborough University".
- ^ "Robert Winston | Birmingham City University".
- ^ "Lord Winston 'privileged' to receive honorary degree | Jewish News".
- ^ "Weizmann UK | Weizmann UK". 18 November 2022.
- ^ "BBC One - Panorama, Inside Britain's Fertility Business".
- ^ ISSN 0261-3077. Retrieved 5 December 2018.
External links
- Robert Winston, Baron Winston at IMDb
- Professor the Lord Winston at the Wayback Machine (archived 25 September 2003)
- President of the BA, Biography at the British Association
- Another biography at the BA
- Age of the Sage: Robert Winston