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Published October 04, 2010, 12:00 AM

Robert Edwards and 'test-tube babies' (1998)


Professor Robert Edwards, the British pioneer of IVF treatment, sits with two of his 'test-tube-babies', Sophie and Jack Emery who celebrate their second birthday in London in this file photo dated Monday July 20, 1998. Test-tube baby pioneer Robert Edwards of Britain has won the 2010 Nobel Prize in medicine it is announced Monday Oct. 4, 2010. Edwards and some of his IVF test-tube children gatherd to celebrate the 20th anniversary of the birth of Louise Brown, the world's first "test tube" baby born in 1978. (AP Photo/Alastair Grant, File)
Read the article: In-vitro UK pioneer Edwards wins medicine Nobel