" Father of #IVF "

Born 9 Jun 1913; died 21 Mar 1988 at age 74.

Patrick Christopher Steptoe was a #British #scientist and medical #researcher who, with Robert Edwards, perfected #in-vitro #fertilization of the #humanegg.

Their technique enabled the birth of #LouiseBrown, the world's first “#Test-tubeBaby,” on 25 Jul 1978.

Steptoe, at an early age, chose medicine over music. During World War II, he was captured by the Italians after his ship was sunk. After the war, with a practice in #obstetrics and #gynecology, he pioneered a new #fiber-optic device, a kind of abdominal “telescope,” called a #laparoscope, to perform minimally invasive #abdominal #surgery. In 1966, to help women with blocked #Fallopiantubes, a major cause of #infertility, he teamed up with Robert Edwards, a Cambridge physiologist who had developed a way to #fertilize human eggs in the lab. Steptoe subsequently helped hundreds of infertile couples have #children. He was awarded the C.B.E.

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