Robert Edwards, an IVF Doctor, Receives Nobel Prize
Robert Edwards, a British physiologist, received the Nobel Peace Prize in Medicine for pioneering the development of in-vitro fertilization, or IVF.

The Nobel Assembly at Karolinska Institute announces on Oct. 4 in Stockholm that Robert Edwards of Britain won the Nobel Medicine Prize for the development of in-vitro fertilization (IVF). Jonathan Nackstrand/AFP/Getty Images
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