#60;b#62;Professor Sir Michael Rutter#60;/b#62; graduated from Birmingham University Medical School in 1955. After postgraduate posts in neurology, paediatrics and cardiology, he undertook training in psychiatry at the Maudsley Hospital in London, qualifying with distinction in 1961 before going to spend a year on a research fellowship at Albert Einstein College of Medicine in New York. On his return he joined the Medical Research Council (MRC) Social Psychiatry Unit, remaining until appointed as Senior Lecturer at the Institute of Psychiatry in London in 1966, subsequently reader and then, in 1973, Professor of Child Psychiatry and Head of the Department of Child and Adolescent… Psychiatry.#60;p#62;From 1984 to 1998 he was Honorary Director of the MRC Child Psychiatry Research Unit and from 1994 to 1998 he was also Honorary Director of the Social, Genetic and Developmental Psychiatry Research Centre, both of which he set up at the Institute of Psychiatry. Since 1998 he has held the position of Professor of Developmental Psychopathology. He has published some 38 books and over 400 scientific papers and chapters.#60;p#62;He was elected to the Royal Society in 1987, was knighted in 1992, and was a founder member of both the Academia Europaea and the Academy of Medical Sciences. He is a foreign member of the US Institute of Medicine, and is currently president of the Society for Research into Child Development. He won the Helmut Horten Foundation prize in 1997, the Castilla del Pino prize in 1995, and the Ruane prize in 2000. He has honorary degrees from the Universities of Leiden, Louvain, Birmingham, Edinburgh, Chicago, Minnesota, Ghent, Jyvaskyla, Warwick and East Anglia. #60;br#62;#60;p#62;#60;b#62;Dorothy Bishop#60;/b#62;#60;br#62;Professor, Department of Experimental Psychology, Oxford University, Oxford, England#60;br#62;#60;p#62;#60;b#62;Daniel Pine#60;/b#62;#60;br#62;NIMH Intramural Research Program, Bethesda, MD, USA#60;br#62;#60;p#62;#60;b#62;Steven Scott#60;br#62;#60;/b#62;Department of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, Institute of Psychiatry, King#8242;s College, London, England#60;br#62;#60;p#62;#60;b#62;Jim S Stevenson#60;/b#62;#60;br#62;Associate Dean, Department of Psychology, University of Southampton, Faculty of Medicine, Health and Life Sciences and School of Psychology, Southampton, England#60;br#62;#60;p#62;#60;b#62;Eric Taylor#60;/b#62;#60;br#62;Professor of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, MRC Social Genetic and Developmental Psychiatry Centre, London, England#60;br#62;#60;p#62;#60;b#62;Anita Thapar#60;/b#62;#60;br#62;Professor, Department of Psychological Medicine, Cardiff University School of Medicine, Cardiff, UK
George Hosato Takei was born on April 20, 1937. He is an American actor and author, best known for his role as Hikaru Sulu, helmsman of the USS Enterprise in the television series Star Trek. Takei is also a proponent of gay rights and active in state and local politics apart from his continued acting career. He has won several awards and recognition in his work on human rights and Japanese-American relations, including his work with the Japanese American National Museum. Takei enrolled in the University of California, Berkeley, where he studied architecture. Later he attended the University of California, Los Angeles, where he received both a Bachelor of Arts and a Master of Arts in… theater. He attended the Shakespeare Institute at Stratford-upon-Avon in England, and Sophia University in Tokyo, Japan. In Hollywood, he studied acting at the Desilu Workshop. In 2004, the government of Japan named Asteroid 7307 "Takei" after him. In June 2012, the American Humanist Association gave Takei the LGBT Humanist Award. His book, Oh Myyy! (There Goes The Internet) was released on December 21, 2013 and became a New York Times bestseller in 2014.