Robert Edwards Wins Nobel Prize in Medicine or Physiology for Pioneering In Vitro Fertilization [Update]: Scientific American

Robert Edwards Wins Nobel Prize in Medicine or Physiology for Pioneering In Vitro Fertilization [Update]: Scientific American Robert Edwards has won the 2010 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for his work to develop in vitro fertilization (IVF), the Nobel committee announced Monday. The procedure allows a human egg to be fertilized outside of the body and then implanted in a woman's; it has been used as a treatment for infertility for more than three decades.