Patrick Steptoe
British gynaecologist
Died when: 74 years 286 days (897 months)Star Sign: Gemini
Patrick Christopher Steptoe CBE FRS (9 June 1913 – 21 March 1988) was an English obstetrician and gynaecologist and a pioneer of fertility treatment.Steptoe was responsible with biologist and physiologist Robert Edwards and the nurse Jean Purdy for developing in vitro fertilisation.
Louise Joy Brown, the first test-tube baby, was born on 25 July 1978.Edwards was awarded the 2010 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for his work on the development of in vitro fertilisation;
Steptoe and Purdy were not eligible for consideration because the Nobel Prize is not awarded posthumously.
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