Robert Edwards (physiologist)

Sir Robert Geoffrey Edwards was a British physiologist, born in Batley, Yorkshire, in 1925, and a pioneer in reproductive medicine and in vitro fertilisation in particular. After serving in the British Army he studied at the University of Edinburgh, where he took his PhD in 1955. He was a postdoctoral research fellow at the California Institute of Technology and then joined the scientific staff of the National Institute for Medical Research at Mill Hill. After a year at the University of Glasgow he moved in 1963 to the University of Cambridge. He worked with Patrick Steptoe and Jean Purdy on IVF and was awarded the 2010 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for it.