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Nobel For IVF Innovator Robert G. Edwards
By KTM Metro Reporter
October 04, 2010: The Swedish Nobel Prize Committee has awarded the Nobel Prize of 2010 in Medicine for the technology of in-vitro fertilization (IVF) to British biologist Robert G. Edwards saying his achievements have made it possible to treat infertility, a medical condition affecting 10% of all couples worldwide. IVF has made more than 4 million infertile couples to have children. He has devised the fertility treatment IVF working with Dr. Patrick Steptoe. Their efforts in the 1950s, 60s and 70s have led to the birth of the world's first "test tube baby" in July 1978. Unfortunately, Professor Edwards is not in the good health condition to delight in such good news.
Steptoe has died in 1988. So, Steptoe did not showed up in the Nobel Prize because Nobel Prize rules require that the prizewinner should be alive at the time of the award. Professor Edwards has to wait such a long time to receive the Nobel Prize due to the Vatican's disapproval of the technique; most of the opposing groups have now reversed their positions except for the Catholic Church according to the critics questioning the delay in awarding the Nobel Prize.
