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Let There Be Life: An Intimate Portrait of Robert Edwards and His IVF Revolution

The authorized biography of Sir Robert Edwards, a coal miner’s son who pioneered in vitro fertilization for infertility, embryonic stem cell research for regenerative medicine, and the medical ethics of embryology (Nobel Prize, 2010). “Robert Edwards changed the world, bringing life, hope, and joy to millions of people. I owe him everything,” Louise Brown. “Thanks to Robert Edward's vision, determination, and dedication, countless women like me have the children we longed for,” Grace MacDonald, mother of the first IVF baby boy.An improbable hero of science and gritty Yorkshireman, he rode a roller-coaster of endeavor to the breakthrough which transformed reproductive medicine and gynecology.“Roger Gosden has done a magnificent job in producing this biography of a remarkable man. His research has provided us with much new material about Bob Edwards’ life and this new information is integrated in a compelling narrative that I could not put down. He describes in terms entirely comprehensible to the lay person the scientific aspects of Bob’s work, set in the wider context of Bob’s life and personality. Overall, a compelling biography of a truly great scientist and man that will be of interest not only to those many millions whose lives have been touched by IVF, but also to the general public interested in what makes good science and a good scientist!” Martin Johnson, FRS, Cambridge University“Gosden's engaging book about the most gripping biological discovery of the past 100 years, equivalent in biology to relativity and quantum mechanics in physics, focuses on a single heroic biologist, Dr Robert Edwards, who single handedly changed the lives of despairing infertile couples, despite all the naysayers who thought he was on either a fool's errand, or worse, a devil's errand,” Sherman Silber, Infertility Center of St Louis“Bob Edwards’ vision and struggles to apply basic embryology to solve the pain of human infertility, penned beautifully by disciple Roger Gosden,” Alan Trounson, Monash University"One of the best and

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