Robert Steiner (radiologist)

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Robert Steiner

CBE, FRCR, FRCP, CRCS
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Steiner in July 1996
Born(1918-02-01)1 February 1918
Died12 September 2013(2013-09-12) (aged 95)
NationalityBritish
Occupation Radiologist

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 British Journal of Radiology , 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]

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References

  1. 1 2 3 4 "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. 1 2 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. OL   16407699M. Wikidata   Q29581663.
  4. "Professor Robert Steiner". Royal College of Radiologists . Retrieved 17 June 2017.