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5 unusual facts about Robert Edwards


Fernando Bonilla-Musoles

In 1982, Bonilla's team began to develop in vitro propagation techniques of Britain's Robert Edwards, in Spain.

In 1994 Bonilla and Dr. Pellicer sponsor the Nobel Prize in Medicine 2010, Robert Edwards, in his appointment as Doctor Honoris Causa by the University of Valencia.

In 1982, Bonilla's team began to develop in vitro propagation techniques of Britain's Robert Edwards (Nobel 2010), pioneering in 1984 the first test tube baby gestate in Spain.

Ignacio Carrasco de Paula

Bishop Carrasco de Paula said that "I find the choice of Robert Edwards completely out of order. Without Edwards, there would not be a market on which millions of ovocytes are sold ... and there would not be a large number of freezers filled with embryos in the world," he told the ANSA news agency.

Ruth Fowler Edwards

Dr Ruth Fowler Edwards (1930-2013) was a British geneticist and the long-time wife and companion of Robert G. (Bob) Edwards, the "father" of in vitro fertilization (and 2010 Nobel laureate in Physiology or Medicine "for the development of in vitro fertilization").



see also

Bob Chakales

Robert Edwards Chakales sha-kuh'-les (August 10, 1927 – February 18, 2010) was a pitcher in Major League Baseball who played with four different clubs between the 1951 and 1957 seasons.