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    Carl Djerassi (October 29, 1923 – January 30, 2015) was an Austrian-born Bulgarian-American pharmaceutical chemist, novelist, playwright and co-founder...
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  • Djerassi may refer to: Boris Djerassi (born 1952), athlete and strongman Carl Djerassi (1923–2015), chemist Djerassi Artists Residency, artists' and writers'...
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    and polluting agents. On October 15, 1951, under the supervision of Carl Djerassi and the direction of George Rosenkranz at Syntex laboratory in Mexico...
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  • his ruthless cofounder. Luis E. Miramontes, George Rosenkranz and Carl Djerassi's successful synthesis of norethisterone (also known as norethindrone)...
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    almost 1000 acres. Dr. Carl Djerassi founded an artists' colony south of Woodside in memory of his late daughter Pamela. The Djerassi Artists Residency is...
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  • University by Edward Feigenbaum, Bruce G. Buchanan, Joshua Lederberg, and Carl Djerassi, along with a team of highly creative research associates and students...
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  • filmmaker Dale Djerassi, affiliate of the Djerassi Resident Artists Program and son of birth control pill inventor Carl Djerassi. Maxwell and Djerassi had one...
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    credited with the discovery of the artificial polymers nylon and neoprene. Carl Djerassi is a pharmaceutical chemist who attended Tarkio College but completed...
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  • older brother Don. She got a job at Stanford University, working for Carl Djerassi in the organic chemistry lab, analyzing psychiatric drugs, and she was...
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  • Miriam in the controversial play Three on A Couch by the scientist Carl Djerassi, and worked closely with him to shape the play for the legendary London...
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  • John B. Olson and Randall S. Ingermanson Oxygen (play), a 2001 play by Carl Djerassi and Roald Hoffmann Oxygen (magazine), a women's magazine published by...
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  • by Roald Hoffman who received the chemistry Nobel prize in 1982, and Carl Djerassi, the Stanford biochemist. The play was performed in several theaters...
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    preferred a vindictive tax audit to that kind of crippling exclusion." Carl Djerassi's 1992 autobiography The Pill, Pigmy Chimps, and Degas' Horse stated...
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  • Michael Frayn at the Comedy Theatre, London as Quine Phallacy (2005) by Carl Djerassi at New End Theatre, Hampstead as Otto Dixon of Dock Green (Dramatised...
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  • – Neal Hefti, American trumpet player and composer (d. 2008) 1923 – Carl Djerassi, Austrian-American chemist, author, and playwright (d. 2015) 1923 –...
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    Rutgers University and in Lent 2013 she was the Diane Middlebrook and Carl Djerassi Professor in Gender Studies at Cambridge University, where she conducted...
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    Robert Burns MacMullin 1973 Theodore L. Cairns 1974 Edwin H. Land 1975 Carl Djerassi 1976 Lewis H. Sarett 1977 Paul J. Flory 1978 Donald F. Othmer 1979 James...
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    chemists that included future leaders from around the world, such as Carl Djerassi, Luis E. Miramontes and Alejandro Zaffaroni. Revolutionary advances...
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    February 2006, she performed in a New End Theatre production of the Carl Djerassi play Taboos, and in early 2007 appeared in a London stage production...
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  • entire careers spent between the two spheres. He gives the example of Carl Djerassi, a research director for a pharmaceutical company who joined Stanford...
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    Selman Waksman (discovery of Streptomycin); Rosalind Franklin (DNA); Carl Djerassi (the pill); Stephen Jay Gould (Evolutionary biology); Baruch Samuel...
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    Jews. Schocken Books. p. 43. ISBN 9780805237115. "Carl Djerassi: The Steroid King." Carl Djerassi: The Steroid King. N.p., n.d. Web. October 1, 2016...
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  • religion is: 'There is no God and Dirac was his prophet. "Carl Djerassi: The Steroid King." Carl Djerassi: The Steroid King. N.p., n.d. Web. 01 Oct. 2016. His...
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    Sandage, John C. Slater, John Archibald Wheeler, Saul Winstein 1973—Carl Djerassi, Maurice Ewing, Arie Jan Haagen-Smit, Vladimir Haensel, Frederick Seitz...
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  • chemist, named Carl Djerassi at Syntex in Mexico City made the hormones in progesterone pills using Mexican yams (Dioscorea mexicana). Djerassi had chemically...
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  • (2009) Diane Middlebrook and Carl Djerassi Visiting Professor of Gender Studies Politics and International Studies Carl Djerassi 2009 Sir Arthur Marshall...
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  • stage productions, she starred in the initial London production of Carl Djerassi's play Phallacy in 2005. After a series of roles in various standard...
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  • Misconception: Sex in an Age of Mechanical Reproduction, a drama by Carl Djerassi This disambiguation page lists articles associated with the title Immaculate...
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    Norethisterone was synthesized for the first time by chemists Luis Miramontes, Carl Djerassi, and George Rosenkranz at Syntex in Mexico City in 1951. It was derived...
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    Gregory Pincus and synthetic methods for progesterone developed by Carl Djerassi at Syntex and by Frank Colton at G.D. Searle & Co., the first oral contraceptive...
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