Sir George Robert Edwards OM CBE. 9 July 1908 — 2 March 2003

Frank George Young: 25 March 1908-20 September 1988.

Sir Robert Edwards (1925–2013): Creator of the Greatest Happiness

‘‘Give me children; else I am as dead’’. The desperate cry of Rachel to her husband Jacob, whose life is meaningless whilst she remains sterile, rings down the ages [1], a cry still heard in both developed countries and less affluent ones. Until recently, this pain has been largely ignored or belittled, as it was by Jacob. Sir Robert Edwards, who died last week, understood it. The plight of inf...

MHR celebration issue in tribute to Professor Sir Robert Edwards.

Bob Edwards died earlier this year and will be sadly missed by all those who knew him. Recognition of his outstanding contributions came rather late in his career but finally, in 2010, he was awarded the Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine. Bobs achievements have been widely documented on a number of different occasions. Amongst these he set upMolecular Human Reproduction (MHR) and as such w...

Sir John McMichael - 25 July 1904--3 March 1993.

Sir George Campbell

trumpet of praise, and his enemies tried to give him a parting kick. We have nothing unkind to say of Sir George. True, lie once insulted the Calcutta doctors grievously by insinuating that they made false returns of their earnings. He was taken to book promptly and sharply on this account at the time. He was able to show that he was misled by statistics and made a frank and generous amende. Th...