Robert Edwards (physiologist)

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. Along with obstetrician and gynaecologist Patrick Steptoe and nurse Jean Purdy, Edwards successfully pioneered conception through IVF, which led to the birth of Louise Brown on 25 July 1978. They founded the first IVF programme for infertile patients and trained other scientists in their techniques. Edwards was the founding editor-in-chief of Human Reproduction in 1986. In 2010, he was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine "for the development of in vitro fertilization".

Sir Robert Edwards

Born
Robert Geoffrey Edwards

(1925-09-27)27 September 1925
Batley, England
Died10 April 2013(2013-04-10) (aged 87)
near Cambridge, England
Alma mater
Known forPioneering in-vitro fertilisation
Spouse
(m. 1959)
Awards
Scientific career
Fields
Institutions
ThesisThe experimental induction of heteroploidy in the mouse (1955)
Doctoral advisorR. A. Beatty
C. H. Waddington
Doctoral studentsRichard Gardner (embryologist)
Martin Hume Johnson
Roger Gosden
Azim Surani
Websitenobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/medicine/laureates/2010
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