Gregory Pincus
Gregory Pincus · Science & Medicine
Biologist who co-developed the first oral contraceptive pill.
1903, Woodbine, New Jersey, United States — 1967, Boston, Massachusetts, United States
United States
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Gregory Pincus was a biologist who co-developed the first oral contraceptive pill in the 1950s, work that reshaped reproductive medicine and women's lives worldwide. With John Rock and others he conducted the clinical research that led to the pill's approval in 1960. He was born to Russian-Jewish immigrant parents in a Jewish farming community in New Jersey.
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Biologist who co-developed the first oral contraceptive pill.
Source: Jinfo.org — Jews in Biology
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