Steptoe, Patrick

Steptoe, Patrick

1913-06-09 Comments Off on Steptoe, Patrick By dts-admin1

IVF (in-vitro fertilisation) is a therapy for the treatment of infertility, it was pioneered in Britain by:

Sir Robert Edwards (1925–) a physiologist and

Patrick Steptoe (1913–88) a gynaecologist.

In 1978 the world’s first ‘test-tube baby’ was born in Oldham, Lancashire.

Wikipedia link: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Patrick_Steptoe