Djerassi

Scientific  

/ djĕ-rä′sē /

1. Austrian-born American chemist who pioneered the development of the first contraceptive pill, as well as many commonly used drugs, including antihistamines and anti-inflammatory agents.

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Example Sentences

On a November, 2019 visit to Dave’s home on San Francisco’s 5th Avenue, we reminisced about that trip: he recalled buying a box of Chinese birth-control devices to take back to Carl Djerassi, the late Stanford University chemist known as “the father of the birth-control pill.”

From Scientific American

Meanwhile, a handful of residency programs — Djerassi in California and Bemis Center for Contemporary Arts in Nebraska among them — were able to remain open into April and even beyond with new rules to keep things safe.

From New York Times

The patent on the birth control pill was held by Rosenkranz, a fellow chemist named Carl Djerassi and one of their students, Luis Miramontes.

From Los Angeles Times

Later in 1951, Dr. Rosenkranz and two colleagues — Carl Djerassi, an Austrian-born scientist and fellow refugee from Nazi Europe, and Luis E. Miramontes, a Mexican doctoral student — were credited with making norethindrone, a synthetic version of the hormone progesterone that is also called norethisterone.

From Washington Post

In the ensuing chapter, we’re in Mexico City in 1950, with the C.I.A. operative Howard Hunt, the novelist William Burroughs and the “steroid man” Carl Djerassi, one of the scientists who helped create the birth-control pill.

From New York Times