This time, our teacher has given us the work to write an article. First, we collected the information in groups about the Nobel prizes given in the last 16 years. Each person had to focus on one year and we wrote about different themes such as; physics, chemistry, literature, peace, economics and physiology and medicine. After that, we had to choose one of all of them, one that interested us the most.
In my case, the topic I have chosen is physiology and medicine and the person who I'm going to speak about, is Robert G. Edwards. But do you know why he is so famous? The answer is quite simple; this man is important because he pioneered in vitro fertilization. If you are interested and if you want to know more about him, read this writing!
Robert Geoffrey Edwards, was an English physiologist
and pioneer in reproductive medicine and in-vitro fertilisation
in particular. The term in vitro is Latin, and means "outside the body". He developed a technique to remove eggs from human ovaries, fertilize those eggs outside the human body, and then implant these fertilized eggs into a woman's womb for development into a human baby.
Robert G. Edwards, who opened a new era in medicine when he joined a colleague in developing in vitro fertilization, enabling millions of infertile couples to bring children into the world and women to have babies even in menopause, he was awarded The Nobel prize in 2010. He essentially changed the rules for how people can come into the world.
Since child he liked a lot to experiment and really liked science. When he was young, very early, he started with his first significant experiments and he achieved many prizes. In addition, it's important to know that he studied in various places.
This huge invention, meant a new way to help infertile couples who formerly had no possibility of having a baby. In 2010 about 4 million children have been born by IVF, with approximately 170,000 coming from donated oocyte and embryos.
Saying in other words, the success of this research has touched the lives of millions of people worldwide, and his dedication and single-minded determination despite opposition from many quarters has led to successful application of his pioneering research.
From my point of view, I think that he had been a great man. At least until nowadays, it has resolved many problems of fertilisation. For multitude of women this person is the dreamt man that had appeared in their life just in the necessary time.
If you want to see a very interesting video about the in-vitro, you have here:
