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  Robert Winston
Professor Lord Robert Winston was born on 15 July 1940.
Lord Winston helped develop important techniques for sterilisation reversal, however contrary to popular belief he was not part of the team that produced the first test-tube baby.
Robert Winston was described by Rory Bremner as the greatest Britain.
www.biogs.com /famous/winston.html   (409 words)

  
 The Spirit of Things - 4 June 2006  - Epiphanies: Lord Robert Winston
Lord Robert Winston is the British fertility scientist who discovered that after all his work on the body, it was the soul he most wanted to map.
Robert Winston: Well I think fundamentally, what I think surprises me is the creationist movement, and the notion that somehow you can't believe in God if you believe in evolution.
Robert Winston: No, I think that what they are reflecting and probably what fundamentalists in Judaism, Christianity and Islam also are reflecting unfortunately, is a streak of aggression which is human nature.
www.abc.net.au /rn/spiritofthings/stories/2006/1651132.htm   (5970 words)

  
 Lieutenant Commander Robert A. Winston - Navy Ace
Cadet Winston made his carrier qualification landings aboard the carrier USS Saratoga (CV-3) in 1937 and after qualifying he was assigned to Fighter Squadron 1 aboard the USS Lexington (CV-2) in the pacific, flying the Boeing F4B-4 biplane.
During February and March of 1940 Robert Winston and a team of mechanics from the Brewster Aircraft Company assisted in the delivery of 44 Brewster Buffalo fighter aircraft that were sold to Finland and delivered through Sweden.
Robert Winston would meet his future wife while in Stockholm Sweden and would marry her in October 1940 after he returned to the US.
www.vf31.com /pilots/winston.html   (1173 words)

  
 RTÉ Sport: Winston disappointed by verdict
Robert Winston was left 'extremely disappointed' and set to appeal after being told he has a case to answer in relation to corruption charges brought against him by the Horseracing Regulatory Authority.
However, Winston was informed on Friday that he will face charges at the main hearing, which is due to start on January 10 and is expected to last around 10 days.
Winston's solicitor said: 'Robert is extremely disappointed by the disciplinary panel of the HRA's ruling that he has a case to answer,' Stewart-Moore said in a statement last night.
www.rte.ie /sport/2006/1125/winstonr.html   (658 words)

  
 Robert Winston and the Finnish Brewsters
Berger asked if Robert Winston could test fly the next Brewster from the assembly line on the same day even though there was a lot of snow on the airfield.
Robert Winston climbed to the cockpit for the first test flight on the 20th of February 1940 at Trollhättan.
Robert Winston was very cautious about letting these young inexperienced pilots to fly a fully-fledged Brewster fighter.
www.warbirdforum.com /winston.htm   (1717 words)

  
 Robert Winston and the Finnish Brewsters
Winston found the taxiing to be easier because of the steerable tail gear even though it was a bit more sensitive at higher speeds.
Winston told his experiences to the half a dozen Swedish officers that had gathered to watch his taxi tests.
Winston's deal ended on the 19th so the project to deliver the 44 Brewsters to the Finnish Air Force was done.
www.warbirdforum.com /winston2.htm   (1350 words)

  
 BBC - Press Office - Robert Winston presents The Story of God
Professor Winston says: "However you define God, and whether you believe in God or not, the world we live in has been shaped by the universal human conviction that there is more to life than life itself; that there is a 'god' shaped hole at the centre of our universe.
The answer to that question, says Professor Winston, can be found in the caves where our ancestors first approached their gods and in the fields where people still call on them for help, in the cities where our ancestors have been honoured and in the temples where the gods have been appeased with sacrifices.
Professor Winston ventures into vast underground laboratories in Switzerland where they are trying to prove the existence of the 'God particle' and speaks to an American geneticist who believes there is a God gene which predisposes some people to have religious or spiritual beliefs.
www.bbc.co.uk /pressoffice/pressreleases/stories/2005/11_november/09/god.shtml   (602 words)

  
 BBC NEWS | Programmes | Breakfast with Frost | Professor Robert Winston and Suzi Leather
ROBERT WINSTON: Well, I mean that's right, you do have a big imbalance, but then if you have more men then women become more valuable, so the pendulum swings back again.
ROBERT WINSTON: And, and that actually is what worries me because we don't know, in the long term, what damage that might possibly do to the DNA.
ROBERT WINSTON: The fact that the Americans are doing it doesn't really persuade me that necessarily we should be embracing it.
news.bbc.co.uk /1/hi/programmes/breakfast_with_frost/2344261.stm   (1097 words)

  
 Professor Lord Robert Winston
Professor Lord Robert Winston was born in 1940 and named Robert Maurice Winston.
Contrary to popular belief Lord Winston was not part of the team that produced the first test-tube baby in 1978 but he has been most prominent in many areas of research related to various aspects of human reproduction, and founded the first NHS (British National Health Service) In Vitro Fertisation (IVF) Programme.
Robert Winston has regularly presented science programmes for BBC television and has recently developed a new series of programmes on the subject of Human Instinct.
www.age-of-the-sage.org /scientist/robert_winston_human_instinct.html   (454 words)

  
 The Gene Genie INTERVIEW INTERVIEW A Pioneer of IVF, Robert Winston Has Created Thousands of Human Lives, and More ...   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
Winston has been a Labour peer since 1995, although he is by no means tribal, having voted Liberal, Labour, Tory and Communist at different times.
Winston was nine, the eldest of three children.
It wasn't until 1978 that the first baby was born as a result of in vitro fertilisation the work of Patrick Steptoe, not Winston as is sometimes said and thereafter IVF was often regarded as a threat to morality.
www.redorbit.com /news/health/733495/the_gene_genie_interview_interview_a_pioneer_of_ivf_robert/index.html   (2682 words)

  
 Professor Lord Robert Winston
Professor Lord Robert Winston is one of the world's most respected medical academics and researcher of the human reproductive system.
Chancellor Elect of Sheffield Hallam University Lord Winston is best know as the presenter of the Human Body and Super Human television series, but he also heads up a world leading human fertility research team.
A major contributor to the development of gynaecological microsurgery in the 1970's Lord Winston was a prime figure in the enormous progress in the fields of IVF and reproductive genetics.
www.robertwinston.co.uk   (264 words)

  
 Robert J Winston, DUI and Criminal Defense
Winston's law practice includes: DUI/drunk driving defense, domestic violence/spousal abuse/assault defense, juvenile/delinquency criminal defense, homicide and murder defense, manslaughter, vehicular manslaughter defense, 3 strikes, gun charges, fraud and theft, computer and sex crimes; as well as most felonies and misdemeanors.
Winston will discuss your case with you and take care of it personally; not farm it out to inexperienced young lawyers or paralegals, as many other firms do.
Winston are by appointment only.Contact or call us today to speak to Ginny, Mr.
www.attorneywinston.com   (507 words)

  
 UNSW Embryology- Development- History of Science- Alfred Deakin Lectures - Robert Winston
Below is the transcript from a speech given as part of the Alfred Deakin Lecture series in 2001 by Professor Lord Robert Winston.
Robert Winston has been a researcher, clinician, academic and educator in human development.
I have included this transcript by Prof Robert Winston due to his exceptional contribution to Embryology bot in its research and presentation to the public.
embryology.med.unsw.edu.au /history/page2001.htm   (6109 words)

  
 Winston Hotels News
Robert Winston will have to wait a little longer to hear if he has been successful in his application that he has "no case to answer" in relation to corruption charges brought against him by the Horseracing...
PROFESSOR Robert Winston explores the ethical and emotional dilemmas posed by so-called "ice babies" as we follow three women who all froze their embryos before having chemotherapy that would leave them...
SEVENTEEN years ago, Professor Robert Winston was part of the team that pioneered an IVF technique to screen embryos before they are implanted.
www.topix.net /com/wxh   (643 words)

  
 Robert G. Winston, WWII POW and Corregidor Survivor
Winston staunchly disagreed with this order, because waiting for bombs to drop, "was too late to do much good".
Winston said the only supplies that were running short toward the end was ammunition and the lack of able-bodied men.
Winston and 99 other POWs were housed in a "barracks" with a thatched roof, built half underground, with brick floor and slept on straw mats.
www.usgennet.org /usa/mo/county/stlouis/ww2/winston.htm   (1983 words)

  
 Modesto Criminal Defense Attorney Northern California Lawyer Robert Winston Manteca Merced Tracy
Robert Winston has served as a Deputy District Attorney in two northern California counties, prosecuting every form of crime; from the simplest misdemeanor, to the most complex felony and homicide.
Robert J. Winston has earned a teaching credential in law with the California Community Colleges; and, as a prosecutor was often the primary instructor in a new lawyer’s indoctrination into the criminal justice system.
Winston will take charge of your case personally, not farm it out to some inexperienced junior lawyer or paralegal.
www.attorneywinston.com /DynamicAttorneys.shtml   (441 words)

  
 Amazon.ca: Human Instinct: Books: Robert Winston   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
I see another reviewer remarked, "Robert Winston is one of the many scientists today who reject God and yet place all their faith in the "infalibilty" of Evolution..." Did he actually read the final pages of the book?
Winston is quite clear that there's a place for God in evolution.
Robert Winston is one of the many scientists today who reject God and yet place all their faith in the "infalibilty" of Evolution, turning it into a substitue of Faith.
www.amazon.ca /Human-Instinct-Robert-Winston/dp/059305024X   (1462 words)

  
 Trukhanovsky, V.G.: Winston Churchill - The Churchill Centre
Cowles, Virginia: Winston Churchill: The Era and the Man
Manchester, William: The Last Lion: Winston Spencer Churchill, Vol.
In 1941 Churchill brought the house down in Congress with the rhetorical query, "What kind of people do they think we are?" He referred, of course, to the Axis, but doubtless he had occasion later to wonder the same about the Russians.
www.winstonchurchill.org /i4a/pages/index.cfm?pageid=492   (431 words)

  
 Robert Winston - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Winston is well-known for presenting several BBC television series, including Superhuman, The Secret Life of Twins, Child of Our Time 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.
Robert Winston won the VLV Award for the most outstanding personal contribution to British television in 2004
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Robert_Winston   (647 words)

  
 Words Matter : Science Writing Symposium : Robert Winston
Robert Winston is Professor of Fertility Studies at Imperial College, London University, and Director of the National Health Service (NHS) Research and Development for Hammersmith Hospital NHS Trust.
As a member of the House of Lords, Professor Winston speaks regularly on education, science, medicine, and the arts.
Winston was Gold Medalist for the Royal Society of Health in 1998 and received the British Medical Association Gold Award for Medicine in the Media and the Faraday Gold Medal from The Royal Society in 1999.
www.its.caltech.edu /~words/winston.html   (217 words)

  
 Robert Winston: Why do we believe in God? | The Guardian | Guardian Unlimited
In these extracts from his latest book, Robert Winston ponders the biggest question of them all
It is of some interest, too, that, in the populations that Bouchard and his colleagues have studied, women tend to have inherited rather more religious attitudes than men.
Winston's new series of the same name will be broadcast on BBC TV, starting in December.
www.guardian.co.uk /g2/story/0,,1590776,00.html   (2564 words)

  
 TagWorld :: Robert Winston Stone - Home
ROBERT WINSTON STONE is a Singer/Songwriter/Musician who possesses an expert command of the guitar and a dynamic vocal ability.
Robert taught music at Berchtesgaden, Germany and received his formal music education at Goldenwest College in Huntington Beach, California.
Robert knew what he wanted to do from a very young age.
www.tagworld.com /HighwayBlues/World/MyWeb.aspx   (255 words)

  
 BBC - Norfolk - Features - An audience with Professor Robert Winston   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
Fertility expert and television presenter Lord Winston is one of the big names to be visiting Norfolk during the BA Festival Of Science 2006.
Professor Robert Winston is well-known for his acclaimed programmes on BBC One, and this Autumn he returns to our television screens in the landmark series A Child Against All Odds.
Lord Winston draws on his 30 years of experience in the field to present this landmark series that follows the stories of couples desperate to conceive as they receive the newest treatments available.
www.bbc.co.uk /norfolk/content/articles/2006/09/05/bafest_sir_robert_winston_feature.shtml   (838 words)

  
 Robert Winston - Dorling Kindersley Authors - Dorling Kindersley
Robert Winston - Dorling Kindersley Authors - Dorling Kindersley
Professor Robert Winston belongs to that rare breed of scientists who combine academic brilliance with charisma and a flair for communication with the general public.
Body (DK, October 2005), Robert's second children's book is an irresistibly grisly, top-to-toe atlas that takes you on a thrilling journey of the human body.
www.dorlingkindersley-uk.co.uk /nf/Author/AuthorPage/0,,11_1000035539,00.html   (753 words)

  
 Interview with Robert Winston, Winston Hotels: TWST
ROBERT W. WINSTON is the Chief Executive Officer of Winston Hotels, Inc.
Winston: Winston Hotels was started in 1994 as a hotel real estate investment trust.
I began by purchasing and developing properties eventually creating Winston Hotels through a merger with another company, and took it public in 1994 with 10 hotels, and today, as I said, we’re at 50.
www.twst.com /notes/articles/map604.html   (995 words)

  
 the-BA : Professor Robert Winston   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
The President of the BA for 2004-2005 was Professor Robert Winston, having taken over at the end of the BA Festival of Science in Exeter.
Professor Winston is Professor of Fertility Studies at Imperial College London and Director of NHS Research and Development for The Hammersmith Hospitals Trust, one of the UK's leading medical research centres.
As a peer he takes the Government Whip (Lord Winston of Hammersmith since 1995) and speaks regularly in the House of Lords on education, science, medicine and the arts.
www.the-ba.net /the-ba/AbouttheBA/OrganisationoftheBA/_ProfesorWinston.htm   (250 words)

  
 Robert Winston (III)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
Frankenstein: Birth of a Monster (2003) (TV) (as Professor Robert Winston)....
The Human Body (2001) (as Dr. Robert Winston)....
Have I Got News for You: The Best of the Guest Presenters (2003) (V) (as Professor Robert Winston)....
www.imdb.com /name/nm0935629   (235 words)

  
 Robert Winston Books - Signed, used, new, out-of-print
The art critic nun is known for her PBS television art series, which have been acclaimed worldwide.
In this groundbreaking book, the author, a respected scientist, examines this relationship across time, beginning with the primitive worship of our early ancestors, and concluding with a vivid portrait of faith in the modern...
Bringing together for the first time prominent researchers in social insect pheromone communication, including nestmate recognition, this book looks at ants, wasps, bees, and termites, highlighting areas of convergence and divergence among these groups, and identifying areas that need further investigation.
www.alibris.com /search/books/author/Robert_Winston   (676 words)

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