Michael Rutter

For the health facility, see Michael Rutter Centre for Children and Adolescents. For the British motorcycle racer, see Michael Rutter (motorcyclist).

Professor
Sir Michael Rutter
CBE FRS FRCP FRCPsych FMedSci
Born
Michael Llewellyn Rutter

(1933-08-15)15 August 1933
Lebanon
Died23 October 2021(2021-10-23) (aged 88)
Dulwich, London, U.K.
Alma materUniversity of Birmingham Medical School
AwardsJoseph Zubin Award (2003)
Scientific career
FieldsChild psychiatry
Institutions
Thesis Illness in parents and children  (1963)
WebsiteOfficial website

Sir Michael Llewellyn Rutter (15 August 1933 – 23 October 2021) was the first person to be appointed professor of child psychiatry in the United Kingdom. He has been described as the "father of child psychiatry".[1]

Rutter was professor of developmental psychopathology at the Institute of Psychiatry, King's College London, and consultant psychiatrist at the Maudsley Hospital, a post he held from 1966 until retiring in July 2021. A survey published in Review of General Psychology in 2002 ranked Rutter as the 68th most cited psychologist of the 20th century.[2]

  1. ^ Professor Sir Michael Rutter CBE FRS FRCP FRCPsych, 1933 - 2021". King's College London.
  2. ^ Haggbloom, Steven J.; Warnick, Renee; Warnick, Jason E.; Jones, Vinessa K.; Yarbrough, Gary L.; Russell, Tenea M.; Borecky, Chris M.; McGahhey, Reagan; Powell, John L., III; Beavers, Jamie; Monte, Emmanuelle (2002). "The 100 most eminent psychologists of the 20th century". Review of General Psychology. 6 (2): 139–152. doi:10.1037/1089-2680.6.2.139.{{cite journal}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link)