Goran Hanson, Secretary-General of the Nobel Prize Selection Committee, said that the in vitro fertilization technology created by Edwards solved an important medical problem, that is, treating a variety of infertility through in vitro fertilization, which helped to eliminate the troubles faced by more than 10% infertile couples in the world.
Robert edwards began to study IVF from 65438 to 0958, and now he is a professor at Cambridge University. He is known as the "father of IVF" and is 85 years old. 1925 was born in Manchester, England, and served in the army during World War II. After the war, Edwards studied biology at the University of Wales and the University of Edinburgh, England, and received his doctorate in biology at 1955. His doctoral thesis is about the research of cultivating embryos in laboratory mice.
The old man won the prize.
At 1 1: 30 local time (Beijing time 17: 30), the annual Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine was announced in an auditorium of Karolinska Medical College in Stockholm, Sweden.