Letter from Duck End Farm

A Visit with Nobel Laureate Robert Edwards

New York Times best-selling author Wendy Goldman Rohm takes us on a journey on the cutting edge of biology and medicine, inspired by her time with Nobel Laureate Robert Edwards. Edwards died on April 10, 2013, at age 87, feted as the technological father of millions of babies around the world -- the oldest of whom is 36-year-old Louise Brown. He is responsible for in vitro fertilization, which in the 1970s was as controversial as embryonic stem cell research is today. Rohm revisits her time with Edwards at his home at Duck End Farm, just outside of Cambridge, England, where he shared his views on nature's limits, and the role of humanity in repairing and finishing its unfinished work. This piece was first published by The Atlantic in 2013, and is now available as a Kindle Single.