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  1. 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.

  2. 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.

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  3. Apr 10, 2013 · Robert Edwards developed the technique of in vitro fertilization, which allows eggs and sperm to be fertilized in a test tube and implanted in a woman. He shared the Nobel Prize with Patrick Steptoe, who performed the first in vitro fertilization in 1978.

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  5. The early influences on Robert Edwards’ approach to the scientific research that led to human IVF are described. His interest as a graduate student in the genetics of early mammalian development stimulated him later to investigate whether the origins of human genetic diseases such as Down, Klinefelter and Turner syndromes might be explained ...

    • Martin H Johnson
    • 10.1016/j.rbmo.2011.04.010
    • 2011
    • 2011/08
  6. Robert Geoffrey Edwards was born on the 27th of September 1925 in the small Yorkshire mill town of Batley. He arrived into a working-class family, the second of three brothers − an older brother, Sammy and a younger, Harry. These brothers Bob describes as competitive, “all determined to win or, if not to win, to go down fighting” [3].

  7. Apr 10, 2013 · Sir Robert Edwards was one of the founders of in vitro fertilisation (IVF), the technique that allows infertile couples to have children. He led the team that produced the first "test tube baby" Louise Brown in 1978 and won the Nobel Prize in 2010.

  8. Oct 4, 2010 · Robert Edwards is awarded the 2010 Nobel Prize for the development of human in vitro fertilization (IVF) therapy. His achievements have made it possible to treat infertility, a medical condition afflicting a large proportion of humanity including more than 10% of all couples worldwide.