Howard W. Jones Jr., Pioneer in Reproductive Medicine, Dies at 104 - 8/1/15

Howard W. Jones Jr., a pioneer in reproductive medicine who oversaw the 1965 Johns Hopkins research that resulted in the world’s first successful fertilization of a human egg outside the body, then collaborated with his wife, gynecologic endocrinologist Georgeanna Seegar Jones, to oversee the 1981 birth of the first “test tube” baby in the United States, died July 31 at Sentara Heart Hospital in Virginia.
Source: Johns Hopkins Medicine News - Category: Research Source Type: news