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Louise Joy Brown is an English woman noted as the first human born following conception by in vitro fertilisation (IVF). Her birth, following a procedure pioneered in Britain, has been lauded among "the most remarkable medical breakthroughs of the 20th century".
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Born 25 July 1978 · Q234027
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“Mum was a very quiet and private person who ended up in the world spotlight because she wanted a family so much.”
Public attention spiked: 6,126 Wikipedia readers in one day, 20× the usual 307, with 0 article edits.
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Published “LAMMPS - a flexible simulation tool for particle-based materials modeling at the atomic, meso, and continuum scales” in Computer Physics Communications — cited 11,838 times.
A plaque was installed on Royal Oldham Hospital to record the importance of Purdy and Sister Muriel Harris to the work
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Time created 89 new covers to celebrate women of the year starting from 1920; it chose Lesley Brown for 1978
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Published “Reproducible, interactive, scalable and extensible microbiome data science using QIIME 2” in Nature Biotechnology — cited 21,058 times.
Published “Observation of Gravitational Waves from a Binary Black Hole Merger” in Physical Review Letters — cited 11,729 times.
Published “Model-based Analysis of ChIP-Seq (MACS)” in Genome Biology — cited 17,939 times.
Published “Clustal W and Clustal X version 2.0” in Bioinformatics — cited 25,004 times.
At the age of 64, while her mother died in 2012 due to complications from a gallbladder infection, also at the age of 64
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Brown married nightclub doorman Wesley Mullinder; Edwards, the only surviving member from the trio who pioneered IVF, attended their wedding
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Published “Initial sequencing and analysis of the human genome” in Nature — cited 18,637 times.
Published “Molecular portraits of human breast tumours” in Nature — cited 12,749 times.
Published “Cluster analysis and display of genome-wide expression patterns” in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences — cited 12,441 times.
Published “Light-emitting diodes based on conjugated polymers” in Nature — cited 10,498 times.
Published “An inventory for measuring clinical anxiety: Psychometric properties.” in Journal of Consulting and Clinical Psychology — cited 10,668 times.
Brown's sister Natalie was born after also being conceived through IVF, becoming the world's 40th such live birth; in May 1999, Natalie became the first human conceived by IVF to herself give birth, though she did so wit
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Born 1978-07-25.
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When asked for his reaction to Brown's birth, Cardinal Albino Luciani (who was then the Patriarch of Venice and later became Pope John Paul I) expressed concerns about the possibility that artificial insemination could l
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