Pincus, Gregory. The Control of Fertility. The Academic Press, 1965.
Gregory Pincus
Standard Name: Pincus, Gregory
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Winter 1950: Birth-control campaigner Margaret Sanger...
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Winter 1950
Birth-control campaigner Margaret Sanger
met with scientist Gregory Pincus
in New York and discussed with him her radical dream of a safe, cheap, reversible method of contraception that would give women control over their bodies...
August 1953: Scientist Gregory Pincus, working for G....
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August 1953
Scientist Gregory Pincus
, working for G. D. Searle
, patented a compound very similar to synthetic oestrogen (first made in Syntex
labs nearly two years before) and set about using it, as Syntex
had...
1954: Dr. Gregory Pincus, a scientist, and Dr....
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1954
Dr. Gregory Pincus
, a scientist, and Dr. John Rock
, a Catholic physician, began the first human trials of the birth-control pill on 50 female volunteers in Massachusetts at the Worcester Foundation for Experimental Biology
10 May 1960: In the USA the FDA approved the use of the...
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