In 1978, two of the world’s first IVF (in vitro fertilization) babies were born in the UK and India. The first of these two revolutionary outcomes was achieved by Patrick Steptoe, Robert Edwards, and Jean Purdy in the UK; the baby, Louise Brown, was born on 25 July. Their names are well known worldwide because the news was reported so enthusiastically around the globe. However, how many people know Subhas Mukerji and his colleagues Sunit Mukherjee and Saroj Kanti Bhattacharya, who are responsible for the world’s second IVF baby, or the baby’s name, Kanupriya Agarwal, who was born in India only three months after Louise? The 1978 IVF birth in India was not widely recognized until 1997 (52).
