Dr. Carl Djerassi, the scientist who has been called one of the many fathers of the birth control pill, died Friday. He was 91. Djerassi, who had been ill from complications due to bone and liver ...

SAN FRANCISCO - Carl Djerassi, the chemist widely considered the father of the birth control pill, has died. Djerrasi died of complications of cancer Friday in his San Francisco home, Stanford ...

Vienna born U.S. chemist, novelist and playwright Carl Djerassi, known for the development of the first oral contraceptive pill, talks during a news conference in Vienna November 11, 2008.

Carl Djerassi, the chemist widely considered the father of the birth control pill, has died. Djerrasi died of complications of cancer Friday in his San Francisco home, Stanford University spokesman ...

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SAN FRANCISCO – Carl Djerassi, the chemist widely considered the father of the birth control pill, has died. Djerrasi died of complications of cancer Friday in his San Francisco home, Stanford ...

Carl Djerassi was 28 and working for a small chemical company in Mexico City in 1951 when he helped make a discovery that changed the world. His team created norethindrone, a synthetic hormone that ...

NEW YORK — Carl Djerassi, an eminent chemist who 63 years ago synthesized a hormone that changed the world by creating the key ingredient for the oral contraceptive known as “the pill,” died at his ...

He has published more than 1,200 scientific papers, 350 in the Journal of the American Chemical Society. He is a chemical “father of the Pill.” He has published three autobiographies, one memoir, five ...

Carl Djerassi, the organic chemist and writer best known for creating the hormone that formed the basis of the first oral contraceptive, passed away on Friday at age 91. Although his most enduring ...

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Carl Djerassi, an Austrian-born chemist who helped to develop the birth control pill before becoming a playwright and novelist, died in San Francisco on Friday at the age of 91, his family said.