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Robert Edwards

1925 - 2013

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Sir Robert Geoffrey Edwards (27 September 1925 – 10 April 2013) 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 patients and trained other scientists in their techniques. Edwards was the founding editor-in-chief of Human Reproduction in 1986. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Robert Edwards is the 13th most popular biologist (up from 70th in 2019), the 171st most popular biography from United Kingdom (up from 524th in 2019) and the 4th most popular British Biologist.

Robert Edwards is most famous for his work with in vitro fertilization.

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Among BIOLOGISTS

Among biologists, Robert Edwards ranks 13 out of 1,097. Before him are Antonie van Leeuwenhoek, Jean-Baptiste Lamarck, Ernst Haeckel, Konrad Lorenz, Rosalind Franklin, and Karl Landsteiner. After him are Robert Brown, Georges Cuvier, George Beadle, Alfred Russel Wallace, Macfarlane Burnet, and Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte de Buffon.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1925, Robert Edwards ranks 11. Before him are Richard Burton, B.B. King, Paul Newman, Yukio Mishima, Mahathir Mohamad, and Patrice Lumumba. After him are Gilles Deleuze, Alija Izetbegović, Zygmunt Bauman, Albert Bandura, Jorge Rafael Videla, and Tony Curtis. Among people deceased in 2013, Robert Edwards ranks 4. Before him are Nelson Mandela, Margaret Thatcher, and Mikhail Kalashnikov. After him are Hugo Chávez, Jorge Rafael Videla, Donald A. Glaser, Pran, Doris Lessing, Heinrich Rohrer, Võ Nguyên Giáp, and Frederick Sanger.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, Robert Edwards ranks 171 out of 8,785. Before him are Brian Johnson (1947), Ridley Scott (1937), Jane Seymour (1508), Roger Bacon (1220), Patrick Blackett (1897), and Robert Gascoyne-Cecil, 3rd Marquess of Salisbury (1830). After him are Horatio Nelson, 1st Viscount Nelson (1758), Jeremy Bentham (1748), Mark Knopfler (1949), Geoffrey Chaucer (1343), Philip Noel-Baker (1889), and Elizabeth Stuart, Queen of Bohemia (1596).

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Among BIOLOGISTS In United Kingdom

Among biologists born in United Kingdom, Robert Edwards ranks 4. Before him are Charles Darwin (1809), Alexander Fleming (1881), and Rosalind Franklin (1920). After him are Robert Brown (1773), Alfred Russel Wallace (1823), John Boyd Orr (1880), Thomas Henry Huxley (1825), John Sulston (1942), Francis Crick (1916), John Edward Gray (1800), and Christian de Duve (1917).

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