The IVF pioneer and Nobel prize winner Professor Sir Robert Edwards has died aged 87. His work led to the birth of Louise Brown, the first "test-tube baby" in July 1978. The University of Cambridge, where Prof Edwards was a fellow of Churchill College, said his work "had an immense impact throughout the world".
He was knighted in 2011, a year after being awarded the Nobel prize for medicine. Professor Martin Johnson was, together with Sir Richard Gardner, Prof Edwards's first graduate student at the University of Cambridge.
He said: "Bob Edwards was a remarkable man who changed the lives of so many people.
"He was not only a visionary in his science but also in his communication to the wider public about matters scientific in which he was a great pioneer.
"He will be greatly missed by his colleagues, students, his family and all the many people he has helped to have children."
-culled from bbc.com
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