Robert Steiner (radiologist)

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Professor

Robert Steiner

CBE, FRCR, FRCP, CRCS
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Steiner in July 1996
Born(1918-02-01)1 February 1918
Prague
Died12 September 2013(2013-09-12) (aged 95)
NationalityUnited Kingdom
OccupationRadiologist

Professor Robert Emil Steiner CBE FRCR, FRCP, CRCS was a British radiologist.

Steiner was born on 1 February 1918 in Prague.[1] When he was three, his family moved to Vienna.[1] He escaped from Austria shortly after the Anschluss, first to Dublin and then during World War II, to the United Kingdom.[1]

From 1961 to 1983 he worked as Professor of Diagnostic Radiology - their first - at the University of London,[2] and at the Royal Postgraduate Medical School, at Hammersmith Hospital, where after retirement he was emeritus.[3]

He served as editor of the , President of the British Institute of Radiology and President of the Royal College of Radiologists.[3]

He was made a Commander of the Order of the British Empire (CBE) as part of the 1979 Birthday Honours; and received the Royal College of Radiologists' Gold Medal in 1986.[4]

He died on 12 September 2013.[1]

References[]

  1. ^ a b c d "Looking back on the life of Professor Robert Steiner". British Institute of Radiology. 8 July 2014. Retrieved 17 June 2017.
  2. ^ "Professor Robert Steiner - obituary". The Daily Telegraph. 16 December 2013. Retrieved 17 June 2017.
  3. ^ a b Daphne Christie; Tilli Tansey, eds. (2002). Peptic Ulcer: Rise and Fall. Wellcome Witnesses to Contemporary Medicine. History of Modern Biomedicine Research Group. ISBN 978-0-85484-084-7. Wikidata Q29581663.
  4. ^ "Professor Robert Steiner". Royal College of Radiologists. Retrieved 17 June 2017.

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