Nobel for father of test tube baby tech...
British
physiologist and test tube baby pioneer Dr. Robert G. Edwards, won the
2010 Nobel prize for medicine. Dr. Edwards, 85, won the prize of 10
million Swedish crowns — around $1.5 million — Sweden’s Karolinska
Institute said. His pioneering work led to the birth of the world’s
first test-tube baby Louise Brown in Britain in 1978. 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,” the institute said in a statement.
Medicine is traditionally the first of the Nobel prizes awarded each year. Prof. Edwards began work on fertilization in 1955, and began his partnership with Dr Patrick Steptoe, a gynaecologist surgeon, in 1968. Prof. Edwards and Steptoe developed IVF technology in which egg cells are fertilised outside the body and implanted in the womb. They founded the world’s first IVF clinic at Bourn Hall in Cambridge in 1980.
Father of five daughters, Prof. Edwards who has 11 grandchildren, in a statement issued on Monday said he feels incredibly lucky to have children “because there is nothing more important in life than having children”. “Nothing is more special than a child".
Medicine is traditionally the first of the Nobel prizes awarded each year. Prof. Edwards began work on fertilization in 1955, and began his partnership with Dr Patrick Steptoe, a gynaecologist surgeon, in 1968. Prof. Edwards and Steptoe developed IVF technology in which egg cells are fertilised outside the body and implanted in the womb. They founded the world’s first IVF clinic at Bourn Hall in Cambridge in 1980.
Father of five daughters, Prof. Edwards who has 11 grandchildren, in a statement issued on Monday said he feels incredibly lucky to have children “because there is nothing more important in life than having children”. “Nothing is more special than a child".
