biography
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Steptoe, Patrick (Christopher)
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| male
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| lived:
| (1913–88)
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| biography:
| Gynaecologist and reproduction biologist, born in Witney, Oxfordshire, SC England, UK. He studied at King's College, London, and St George's Hospital, and became senior obstetrician and gynaecologist in the Oldham Hospitals (1951) and medical director of the Bourn Hall Clinic, Cambridgeshire (1980). From 1968, with Robert Edwards (1925– ), he worked on the problem of in vitro fertilization of human embryos, which 10 years later resulted in the birth of a baby (Louise Brown) after implantation in her mother's uterus. |
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