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Sir Robert Geoffrey Edwards CBE FRS MAE (27 September 1925 – 10 April 2013) was a British physiologist and pioneer in reproductive medicine, and in-vitro fertilisation (IVF) in particular.
Robert Edwards was a British medical researcher who developed the technique of IVF. His work with Patrick Steptoe made possible the birth of Louise Brown, the world’s first “test-tube baby,” in 1978. Edwards was awarded the 2010 Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine for his discoveries.
- The Editors of Encyclopaedia Britannica
Introduction. Robert G Edwards was awarded the 2010 Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine ‘for the development of in vitro fertilization’ ( Nobel, 2010 ). There is a variety of accounts of the events leading up to this discovery and its acceptance, most of them by participants (see Johnson et al., 2010 ), but historical scholarship is rarer.
- Martin H Johnson
- 10.1016/j.rbmo.2011.04.010
- 2011
- 2011/08
Apr 10, 2013 · April 10, 2013. Robert G. Edwards, who opened a new era in medicine when he joined a colleague in developing in vitro fertilization, enabling millions of infertile couples to bring children into...
The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 2010 was awarded to Robert G. Edwards "for the development of in vitro fertilization"
May 11, 2013 · Physiologist who pioneered the development of in-vitro fertilisation. He was born in Batley, UK, on Sept 27, 1925, and died in Cambridge, UK, on April 10, 2013, aged 87 years. One of the last times Robert Edwards spoke in public was to mark the UK's National Infertility Day in 2008.
May 17, 2013 · Robert Geoffrey Edwards was born in 1925 in Yorkshire, England. He attended the University of Wales and then earned a Ph.D. in physiology from the University of Edinburgh in 1955. He joined the University of Cambridge faculty in 1963 where he remained for the rest of his career.
