Test-tube baby pioneer Professor Sir Robert Edwards dies

[muriel_volestrangler]

Source: BBC

The IVF pioneer whose work led to the world's first "test tube baby" has died at the age of 87.

Professor Sir Robert Edwards was knighted in 2011, five decades after he began experimenting with IVF.

His work led to the birth of "test-tube baby" Louise Brown at Oldham General Hospital in 1978.
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In a statement, the university said: "It is with deep sadness that the family announces that Professor Sir Robert Edwards, Nobel Prize-winner, scientist and co-pioneer of IVF, passed away peacefully in his sleep after a long illness."

Read more: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-cambridgeshire-22091873

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While most say things like "Few biologists have so positively and practically impacted on humankind", the official Catholic church reaction to the award of the Nobel Prize was that it was "completely out of order".

[Kolesar]

1. It does not seem like that grand of an accomplishment to me

I suppose there are adults who are heartbroken that they cannot have children, and this assuages their feelings.
Do we need more humans? I kind of feel like a stray dog myself, though.