Nobel Prize for medicine or physiology Awarded to Dr.Robert G. Edwards for "test-tube baby." British physiologist Dr. Edwards (85) got the prize of 10 million Swedish crowns — around $1.5 million — Sweden’s Karolinska Institute said.
Dr. Robert G. Edwards developed the technique, in which the egg cells are fertilized outside the body and then implanted in the womb, He makes it with Dr. Patrick Steptoe. “His achievements have made it possible to treat infertility, a medical condition afflicting a large proportion of humanity including more than ten persen of all couples worldwide,” the institute said in a statement.
Dr. Robert G. Edwards developed the technique, in which the egg cells are fertilized outside the body and then implanted in the womb, He makes it with Dr. Patrick Steptoe. “His achievements have made it possible to treat infertility, a medical condition afflicting a large proportion of humanity including more than ten persen of all couples worldwide,” the institute said in a statement.
Nobel prize for medicine is one of the first Nobel prizes awarded each year. Prizes for achievements in science, literature and peace were first awarded in 1901 accordance with the will of dynamite inventor and businessman Alfred Nobel.
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