Georgeanna Seegar Jones | |
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Born | |
Died | March 26, 2005 | (aged 92)
Education | Goucher College (B.A.) Johns Hopkins University (M.D.) |
Known for | Pioneering in-vitro fertilization |
Scientific career | |
Fields | Endocrinology Gynecology Obstetrics |
Institutions | Johns Hopkins University |
Georgeanna Seegar Jones (July 6, 1912 – March 26, 2005) was an American reproductive endocrinologist who with her husband, Howard W. Jones, pioneered in vitro fertilization in the United States.[1]
Dr. Georgeanna S. Jones, who was half of a husband-and-wife team that created the first program for in vitro fertilization in the United States and its first "test tube" baby, died on Saturday at a hospital in Norfolk, Va. She was 92 and lived in Portsmouth, Va.