Robert Steiner (radiologist)
British radiologist
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Professor Robert Emil Steiner CBE FRCR, FRCP, CRCS was a British radiologist.
Professor Robert Steiner | |
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Steiner in July 1996 | |
| Born | 1 February 1918 |
| Died | 12 September 2013 (aged 95) |
| Occupation | 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]
