July 2011

Editorial Board
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Foreword

Salute to a giant …
• Kamal Ahuja,
• Fiona Bennett,
• Jacques Cohen,
• Ruth Edwards
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Tributes

1950s

Mouse prophecy
• Huw Pritchard
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My connection with Bob Edwards
• Ann Silver
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Tribute to Bob
• Julio Sirlin
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Robert Geoffrey (Bob) Edwards: the early years
• John Slee
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1960s

Celebrating Professor Robert G Edwards
• Dannie Abse
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The green chromosomes
• M.J. Ashwood-Smith
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Vision and determination
• Barry Bavister
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Can-do enthusiasm
• J Michael Bedford
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An eye-opening meeting at Exeter in the summer of 1967
• Henning M Beier
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Bob Edwards – personal memories
• Richard Branson
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Bob Edwards tribute
• Bruce Cattanach
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Friend and advisor
• Joseph C Daniel
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Glasgow and Hull memories
• Edwin A Dawes
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Tribute to Bob Edwards
• Malcolm Ferguson-Smith
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A tribute to Bob Edwards
• Richard Gardner
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Yorkshire common sense
• Dave Griffin
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Professor RG Edwards, CBE, FRS
• RHF Hunter
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Bob – a friend and colleague
• Martin Johnson
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Robert Edwards goes to Johns Hopkins
• Howard Jones
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Robert Edwards – a friendship spanning more than 40 years
• Bruno Lunenfeld
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Professor Robert G Edwards – outstanding person, scientist and Nobel Laureate
• Ursula Mittwoch
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Nobel Laureate, capacitation and cows
• Robert Moor
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A memorable day
• Barbara Rankin
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Some mementos of my association with Professor Robert G Edwards
• Andrew V Serially
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Recollections of Bob Edwards
• David J Sharpe
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A brief report from Australia
• David Simpson
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Dear Bob
• Ryuzo ‘Yana’ Yanagimachi
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1970s

Bob Edwards: generous in spirit, determined in work
• Kamal Ahuja
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Bob Edwards, a happy encounter with the future
• Henri Alexandre
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A personal tribute to Robert G Edwards
• Pushpa M Bhargava
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A true pioneer
• Jacques Cohen
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Professor Robert G Edwards
• Alan Dexter
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Prof. Robert Edwards
• Klaus Diedrich
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Harsh critic and bon viveur
• Jean-Claude Emperaire
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Tribute to Professor RG Edwards, Fellow of Churchill College
• Alan Findlay
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Robert Edwards and the early years of the world's first dedicated IVF clinic
• Simon Fishel
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Laying strong foundations
• Norma Lynn Fox
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Letter from Dr Hester Goddard (née Pratt)
• Hester Goddard
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A visionary scientist and a great man
• Victor Gomel
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Tribute to Robert G Edwards
• Robert E Gore-Langton
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An Uncommon Don
• Roger Gosden
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Celebrating Professor Robert Edwards (laureate of the 2010 Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine)
• A Iritani
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Celebrating Professor Robert G Edwards
• Aarne I Koskimies
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A patient's tribute
• Grace MacDonald
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Meeting with Bob
• Yves Menézo
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Tribute to Bob Edwards
• Liselotte Mettler
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Tribute to Robert Edwards
• Marilyn Monk
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A tribute to my mentor from a Japanese colleague
• Takahide Mori
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