38 Facts About Robert Winston

Robert Winston was born in London to Laurence Winston and Ruth Winston-Fox, and brought up as an Orthodox Jew.

Robert Winston attended firstly Salcombe Preparatory School until the age of 7, followed by Colet Court and St Paul's School, later graduating from The London Hospital Medical College in 1964 with a degree in medicine and surgery and achieved prominence as an expert in human fertility.

Robert Winston joined Hammersmith Hospital as a registrar in 1970 as a Wellcome Research Fellow.

Robert Winston became an associate professor at the Catholic University of Leuven, Belgium in 1975.

Robert Winston was a scientific advisor to the World Health Organisation's programme in human reproduction from 1975 to 1977.

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Robert Winston joined the Royal Postgraduate Medical School as consultant and Reader in 1977.

Robert Winston became Dean of the Institute of Obstetrics and Gynaecology in London until its merger with Imperial College in 1997.

Robert Winston was Director of NHS Research and Development at the Hammersmith Hospitals Trust until 1994.

Robert Winston developed tubal microsurgery and various techniques in reproductive surgery, including sterilisation reversal.

Robert Winston performed the world's first Fallopian tubal transplant in 1979 but this technology was later superseded by in vitro fertilisation.

Robert Winston was the president of the British Association for the Advancement of Science from 2004 to 2005.

Together with Carol Readhead of the California Institute of Technology, Robert Winston researched male germ cell stem cells and methods for their genetic modification at the Institute of Reproductive and Developmental Biology, Imperial College London.

Robert Winston has published over 300 scientific papers in peer-reviewed journals.

Robert Winston was appointed to a new chair at Imperial College – Professor of Science and Society – and is emeritus professor of Fertility Studies there.

Robert Winston was Chairman of the Institute of Obstetrics and Gynaecology Trust and chairs the Women-for-Women Appeal.

Robert Winston is a Fellow of the Academy of Medical Sciences, an Honorary Fellow of the Royal Academy of Engineering, a Fellow of the Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists and of the Royal College of Physicians of London, and is an Honorary Fellow of the Royal College of Surgeons, Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons, and the Royal Society of Biology.

Robert Winston is a trustee of the UK Stem Cell Foundation.

Robert Winston is a patron of The Liggins Institute, University of Auckland, New Zealand.

Robert Winston holds strong views about the commercialisation of fertility treatment.

Robert Winston believes that ineffective treatments result in great anguish to couples and is alarmed that so many treatments for the symptom of infertility are carried out before proper investigation and diagnosis has been made.

Robert Winston is sceptical about the effectiveness of current methods for screening human embryos to assess their viability.

Robert Winston was the presenter of many BBC television series, including Your Life in Their Hands, Making Babies, Superhuman, The Secret Life of Twins, Child of Our Time, Human Instinct, The Human Mind, Frontiers of Medicine and the BAFTA award-winner The Human Body.

Robert Winston presented the BBC documentary Walking with Cavemen, a major BBC series that presented some controversial views about early man but was endorsed by leading anthropologists and scientists.

In 2007, Robert 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.

Robert Winston has regularly appeared on The Wright Stuff as a panellist as well as numerous chat show programmes such as Have I Got News For You, This Morning, The One Show and various political programmes such as Question Time and Any Questions.

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Robert Winston is featured in the Symphony of Science episode Ode to the Brain.

Robert Winston took part in the 2011 TV series Jamie's Dream School.

In recent years, Robert Winston has been featured on The Late Late Show with James Corden in the United States, presenting various entertaining scientific experiments.

Robert Winston was created a life peer on 18 December 1995 as Baron Robert Winston, of Hammersmith in the London Borough of Hammersmith and Fulham.

Robert Winston sits on the Labour Party benches in the House of Lords and takes the Labour whip.

Robert Winston speaks frequently in the House of Lords on education, science, medicine and the arts.

Robert Winston 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.

Robert Winston is a member of Labour Friends of Israel.

Robert Winston has made a number of claims regarding the impact of segregated cycle lanes on air quality and emissions in Central London, which are not substantiated by evidence.

Robert Winston is a member of the Centre for Data Ethics and Innovation, an advisory board created in 2019 and sponsored by the Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport, which works on ethical and innovative deployment of data-enabled technologies including artificial intelligence.

Robert Winston is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts, a former vice-president of the Royal College of Music and a member of the Garrick Club, the MCC, and the Athenaeum Club in London.

Robert Winston gives many public lectures a year on scientific subjects and has helped to promote science literacy and education by founding the Reach Out Laboratory in Imperial College, which brings schoolchildren of all ages into the university on a daily basis to do practical science and to debate the issues which science and technology raise.

Robert Winston has received at least 23 honorary degrees, These include.