Robert Edwards
English physiologist and pioneer in reproductive medicine and in-vitro fertilisation
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- Doctors rank#89
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United KingdomHe made it possible for human life to begin in a lab dish. The technique Robert Edwards developed — in vitro fertilisation — has since led to millions of births that wouldn't have happened otherwise.
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Robert Edwards was a British physiologist who spent years working on the problem of human conception outside the body, a pursuit many considered unethical or impossible. With obstetrician Patrick Steptoe and embryologist Jean Purdy, he refined the process that resulted in Louise Brown's birth on 25 July 1978 — the first baby conceived through IVF. They built the first IVF programme for infertile patients and trained others in the method. Edwards went on to found the journal Human Reproduction in 1986. In 2010, thirty-two years after that first birth, he received the Nobel Prize in Physiology o…
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