Elliot Philipp
{{short description|British obstetrician and gynaecologist}}
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| birth_name = Elliot Elias Philipp
| birth_date = 20 July 1915
| birth_place = Stoke Newington, London, England
| death_date = {{d-da|27 September 2010|20 July 1915}}
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| parents = Oscar Philipp
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| spouse = Lucie Hackenbroch
| family = Julius Philipp (uncle)
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Elliot Elias Philipp (20 July 1915 – 27 September 2010) was a British gynaecologist and obstetrician who worked with Patrick Steptoe and Robert Edwards in developing in-vitro fertilisation and authored The Technique of Sex (1939) with the assistance of Sigmund Freud.{{Cite web|last= |first= |authorlink= |title=Elliot Philipp |publisher=The Telegraph |date=October 7, 2010 |url= https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/obituaries/culture-obituaries/books-obituaries/8049068/Elliot-Philipp.html |accessdate= |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210119033458/https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/obituaries/culture-obituaries/books-obituaries/8049068/Elliot-Philipp.html |archive-date=January 19, 2021}}
Biography
Phillip was born to a Jewish family in Stoke Newington, the son of Clarisse (née Weil) and Oscar Philipp.{{Cite web|last=|first=|authorlink=|title=Obituary: Elliot Philipp 1915–2010|publisher=Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists|date=|url=https://www.rcog.org.uk/en/news/membership-news/obituaries/obituary-elliot-philipp/|accessdate=|archive-date=29 May 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190529162314/https://www.rcog.org.uk/en/news/membership-news/obituaries/obituary-elliot-philipp/|url-status=dead}}{{Cite web|last= |first= |authorlink= |title=Oscar Israel Philipp, Hebrew Scholar and Publisher, Dead at 77 |publisher=Jewish Telegraph Agency|date=August 31, 1965 |url=https://www.jta.org/1965/08/31/archive/oscar-israel-philipp-hebrew-scholar-and-publisher-dead-at-77 |accessdate=}} His father - who was a cousin to Martha Bernays, the wife of Sigmund Freud - immigrated in 1908 to London from Hamburg to set up the metal trading firm Philipp Brothers. Philipp retired from the National Health Service in 1980 but still saw private patients in Harley Street and operated until the age of 77.
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Category:British gynaecologists
Category:British obstetricians
Category:People from Stoke Newington
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