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Carl Djerassi

1923 - 2015

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Carl Djerassi

Carl Djerassi (Wenen, 29 oktober 1923 – San Francisco, 30 januari 2015) was een in Oostenrijk geboren Bulgaars-Amerikaanse chemicus, schrijver en toneelschrijver die de meeste bekendheid geniet vanwege zijn bijdrage aan de ontwikkeling van de anticonceptiepil. Hij was betrokken bij de uitvinding van de anticonceptiepil, doordat hij er in 1951 in slaagde het molecuul norethindrone te ontwikkelen, een chemische vervanger voor het geslachtshormoon progesteron. Hierop vroeg hij met de Mexicaan Luis E. Miramontes en de Mexicaan-Hongaar George Rosenkranz patent aan. Anderen, Gregory Pincus, John Rock en Min Chueh Chang, werkten verder met deze inzichten en stonden dichter bij de ontwikkeling van de feitelijke pil als marktproduct. Lees meer op Wikipedia

His biography is available in 31 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 30 in 2024). Carl Djerassi is the 373rd most popular chemicus (down from 347th in 2024), the 531st most popular biography from Austria (down from 488th in 2019) and the 8th most popular Austrian Chemicus.

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Among Chemicuses

Among chemicuses, Carl Djerassi ranks 373 out of 602. Before him are Charles Hatchett, Viktor Meyer, Asima Chatterjee, Friedrich Konrad Beilstein, Morris Travers, and Friedrich Stromeyer. After him are Jeremias Benjamin Richter, Andrés Manuel del Río, Albert Ghiorso, Vera Yevstafievna Popova, Louis-Bernard Guyton de Morveau, and Jacques Bergier.

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Among people born in 1923, Carl Djerassi ranks 149. Before him are Achille Silvestrini, Estelle Getty, Inge Morath, Lindsay Anderson, Onofre Marimón, and Cheikh Anta Diop. After him are Gerda van der Kade-Koudijs, Peter Lawford, Wes Montgomery, Harrison Dillard, Albert Vanhoye, and Constantin Dăscălescu. Among people deceased in 2015, Carl Djerassi ranks 126. Before him are Natalie Cole, Jørgen Ingmann, Esther Brand, Roger Hanin, William Wakefield Baum, and Hyon Yong-chol. After him are Guy Ligier, Edgar Froese, Chea Sim, Gerda van der Kade-Koudijs, Aleksei Gubarev, and Aruna Shanbaug case.

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