Professor Ronnie Hartles, who died on 1 August 2003, was a most distinguished dental scientist and was one of the first ‘pure’ scientists to find a career opportunity in dental research. Ronald Lewis Hartles was born on 15 November 1915 and was educated at Wade Deacon Grammar School in Widnes, Chesh

Bert was the first Nuffield research professor of dental science at the Royal College of Surgeons. He was born in Johannesburg, South Africa, the third of four children of Pauline (née Soloveychik) and Morris Cohen, Jewish immigrants from Lithuania. His grandfather, Shmuel, had opened a wholesale gr