Bob Edwards presented with his Nobel Prize
In October, it was announced that Professor Robert Edwards had been awarded the
2010 Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine. The presentation of the Nobel medal took
place on Friday 10 December in a glittering ceremony in the Concert Hall, Stockholm.
Bob’s health was unfortunately too frail for him to attend in person, and so his prize was
accepted from the King of Sweden by his wife and long-term scientific colleague Ruth
Fowler Edwards — herself the grand-daughter of 1908 Nobel Laureate in Chemistry, Lord
Earnest Rutherford. Afterwards, Ruth, on the arm of the Prime Minister of Sweden,
processed to the Nobel Banquet at The City Hall. Present at both occasions were
daughters Caroline, Sarah, Jenny and Meg Edwards, together with 6 of Bob’s
grandchildren and his nephew Dean, as were Andrew Steptoe, son of Patrick, together
with RBM Managing Secretary Caroline Blackwell and Editor Martin Johnson. Earlier in
the week, on Tuesday 7 December at the Karolinska Institutet, Martin opened a packed
public symposium on Bob’s work at the invitation of the Nobel Assembly. Also speaking
were Ruth Edwards, Harriet Wallberg-Henriksson, Hugo Lagercrantz, Lars Hamberger
and Outi Hovatta. RBM senior editor, Jacques Cohen, and Chairman Kamal Ahuja also
attended. The company then proceeded to dinner at the invitation of the Nobel Medical
Committee in the Thielska Gallery. On Thursday 9 December, the Edwards party also
lunched at the British Embassy at the invitation of Her Brittanic Majesty’s Ambassador,
Mr Andrew Mitchell, and Mrs Helen Mitchell. For more details of events see http://nobelprize.org/.
13 December 2010
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