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Carl Djerassi was an Austrian-born Bulgarian-American pharmaceutical chemist, novelist, playwright and co-founder of Djerassi Resident Artists Program with Diane Wood Middlebrook. He is best known for his contribution to the development of oral contraceptive pills, nicknamed the "father of the pill". Wikipedia  

✵ 29. October 1923 – 30. January 2015
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“Well, hardly ever. Unless the individual happens to be oneself. The Sunday Timess list ends with one living relic. On the face of it, the appearance of the name Carl Djerassi is patently ridiculous by any criterion but one: as a surrogate for the Pill.”

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[This man's pill: reflections on the 50th birthday of the pill, Oxford University Press, 2003, 1–4, https://books.google.com/books?id=6lFxAwAAQBAJ&pg=PA1]

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