Test Tube Baby pioneer and professor emeritus of Cambridge Robert Edwards of Britain has won the 2010 Nobel Prize in medicine on Monday for developing in-vitro fertilization, a breakthrough that opened out heated controversy in the 1970s but has helped millions of infertile couples since then have children. Professor Robert Edwards with his fellow Patrick Steptoe tried to provide the touch of satisfaction, peace and completeness of life in the hearts of the millions of couples over the world. Edwards, an 85-year-old professor emeritus at the University of Cambridge, started working on IVF as early as the 1950s. He developed the technique - in which egg cells are removed from a woman, fertilized outside her body and then implanted into the womb - together with British gynecologist surgeon Patrick Steptoe, who died in 1988. On July 25, 1978, Louise Brown in Britain became the first baby born through the groundbreaking procedure, marking a revolution in fertility treat...
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