Robert Edwards(Britain)Test tube baby pioneer Robert Edwards dies - Wednesday April 10,2013

Robert Edwards(Sep 27,1925 -April 10,2013)the British Nobel Laureate(in physiology or medicine in 2010) who pioneered the development of in vitro fertilisation (IVF ) that led to the birth of the world’s first “test tube baby” , died on Wednesday April 10,2013 after a long illness at the age of 87.

Sir Robert, who founded the world’s first IVF clinic at Bourn Hall in Cambridge in 1980 and developed IVF with Dr. Patrick Steptoe, started work on fertilisation in the 1950s

In a laboratory in Cambridge, eastern England, in 1968, he first saw life created outside the womb in the form of a human blastocyst, an embryo that has developed for five to six days after fertilisation

The first test tube baby, Louise Brown, was born in July 1978 at Oldham General Hospital, Lancashire

 Louise Mullinder (formerly Brown)and Robert Edwards