Nobel Prize for the father of IVF

Finally! With 30 years delay!

Nobel Prize for the father of IVF

Robert Edwards, the father of ‘in vitro’ fertilization, receives the Nobel Prize for medicine

The British researcher Robert Edwards has been rewarded with the 2010 Nobel Prize for medicine, for his breakthrough in ‘in vitro’ fertilization.

He is getting this prize at 84 years of age, and at over 30 years from conceiving the first child in a tube. At that time it was a real medical revolution, because it made treating sterility possible!

Since then, 4 million children have been born, thanks to ‘in vitro’ fertilization.