Died 2013-04-10.
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Robert Edwards
Sir Robert Geoffrey Edwards 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 and embryologist 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…
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science · English physiologist (1925–2013) · physician · physiologist · biologist · researcher · also Robert Edwards, Robert Edwards (physiologist), Robert G. Edwards, Sir Robert Geoffrey Edwards, Robert Geoffrey Edwards, Bob Edwards
Born 27 September 1925 · Died 10 April 2013 · Q104913
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2013· 1 entry
2010· 5 entries
Awarded the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine — for the development of in vitro fertilization.
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Awarded Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (2010).
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Was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine "for the development of in vitro fertilization"
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“Opis: w komunikacie Komitetu Noblowskiego, 4 października 2010.”
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About 4 million children have been born by IVF, with approximately 170,000 coming from donated oocytes and embryos
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2008· 1 entry
Awarded Annual Review Prize Lecture (2008).
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2007· 2 entries
Was awarded an honorary doctorate from the University of Huddersfield
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Was ranked 26th in The Daily Telegraph's list of 100 greatest living geniuses
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2005· 1 entry
Won Eardley Holland Gold Medal (2005).
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2002· 1 entry
Was awarded Grand Hamdan International Award - Obstetrics & Gynecology by Hamdan Medical Award
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2001· 2 entries
Awarded Lasker-DeBakey Clinical Medical Research Award (2001).
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Was awarded the Albert Lasker Clinical Medical Research Award by the Lasker Foundation "for the development of in vitro fertilization, a technological advance that has revolutionized the treatment of human infertility
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1994· 2 entries
Awarded honorary doctor of the University of Valencia (1994).
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Doctor Honoris Causa, University of Valencia (Spain)
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1989· 1 entry
Awarded King Faisal International Prize in Medicine (1989).
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1988· 2 entries
Awarded honorary doctorate of the Vrije Universiteit Brussel (1988).
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Edwards was appointed Commander of the Order of the British Empire (CBE) in the 1988 New Year Honours
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1968· 1 entry
Was able to achieve fertilisation of a human egg in the laboratory and started to collaborate with Patrick Steptoe, a gynaecological surgeon from Oldham
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1963· 1 entry
Moved to the University of Cambridge as Ford Foundation Research Fellow at the Department of Physiology, and a member of Churchill College, Cambridge
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1925· 1 entry
Born 1925-09-27.
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