Monday 19 January 2009
Carl Djerassi fled with his
mother from Nazi persecution in Austria and
flourished in the United States as a chemist
and a writer, an entrepreneur and a teacher.
In early 1950s he was one of three scientists
whose work on synthetic progestagen laid the
foundation for the first oral contraceptive
pill, which the Federal Drug Administration
approved for use in in 1960. Forty-nine years
later, the 85-year-old professor emeritus from
Stanford University wrote of his achievement
for the Austrian newspaper, Der
Standard. To
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