Bert Cohen obituary

My uncle Bert Cohen, who has died aged 95, served for more than two decades as the first Nuffield research professor of dental science at the Royal College of Surgeons of England. An oral pathologist of great distinction, he was above all a scientist of wide-ranging interests, a man passionate about literature and art, and a stranger to narrow specialisation whose curiosity never dimmed.

After retirement in 1983, he took a prominent position on the tumour panel at what was then the Imperial Cancer Research Fund (now Cancer Research UK), a role reflecting his respected work on head and neck cancers. He also chaired the board of trustees of the Hunterian Museum at the Royal College, a medical collection. He was appointed CBE in 1982.