Nobel 2010: In vitro fertilization
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The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 2010 to Robert G. Edwards for the development of in vitro fertilizationThe 2010 Nobel Prize in Physiology and medicine was awarded to Briton Robert Edwards (Robert Geoffrey Edwards) for his work on in vitro fertilization (IVF).
This became known during a live broadcast from Karolinska Institutet, where the names of the laureates are traditionally announced.
Edwards, who is 85 years old, began working on the problem back in the 1960s. The first test tube baby was born at 11:47 on July 25, 1978 at Oldham General Hospital. Louise Brown became the long-awaited firstborn of a British couple who were unsuccessfully treated for secondary infertility (the woman had an obstruction of the fallopian tubes). Louise got married and in 2006 became a mother herself, however, without the help of assisted reproductive technologies.
Together with Edwards, his colleague Patrick Steptoe, who died of lung cancer in 1988, worked on the problem. At a press conference, journalists asked the members of the Nobel Committee why the prize was not divided between them. The organizers stressed that they recognize the merits of Steptoe, but the contribution of Professor Edwards, in their opinion, turned out to be more significant. In addition, the award is not awarded posthumously.
In the USSR, the first successful IVF also ended with the birth of a girl, Elena Dontsova. She was born in the clinic of the Scientific Center of Obstetrics, Gynecology and Perinatology of the Russian Academy of Medical Sciences in 1986. Like Louise Brown, she gave birth to a son. This happened in 2007.
Since 1901, 195 people have become laureates of the Medical Nobel Prize. The youngest winner was 23-year-old Canadian Frederick Bunting, who in 1923 shared the laurels of the discoverer of insulin with John McLeod.
The oldest is 87—year-old American Francis Peyton Rouse, awarded in 1966 for the discovery of oncogenic viruses.
Only two Russian scientists have been awarded the highest scientific award in the entire history of the award: Ivan Pavlov in 1904 (physiology of digestion) and Ilya Mechnikov in 1908 (immunity).
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