Nobel Prize recipient in Physiology or Medicine for the development of in vitro fertilization
Sir Robert Geoffrey Edwards was born in 1925. Robert's birth was registered in the Oct-Nov-Dec quarter of 1925 in the Dewsbury district.[1] He was an English physiologist and pioneer in reproductive medicine, and in-vitro fertilisation (IVF) in particular. Along with the surgeon Patrick Steptoe, Edwards successfully pioneered conception through IVF, which led to the birth of Louise Brown on 25 July 1978. They founded the first IVF program for infertile patients and trained other scientists in their techniques. Edwards was the founding editor-in-chief of Human Reproduction in 1986. In 2010, Edwards was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine "for the development of in vitro fertilization". He died in 2013.
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