Awarded National Inventors Hall of Fame (2006).
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Gregory Goodwin Pincus
Gregory Goodwin Pincus was an American biologist and researcher who co-invented the combined oral contraceptive pill.
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science · American biochemist (1903–1967), inventor of the contraceptive pill · physiologist · biochemist · physician · biologist · scientist · naturalist · also Gregory Goodwin Pincus, Gregory G. Pincus, Gregory Pincus, Pincus
Born 9 April 1903 · Died 22 August 1967 · Q334361
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1967· 3 entries
Died 1967-08-22.
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Awarded AMA Scientific Achievement Award (1967).
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Of myeloid metaplasia, a blood cancer, in Boston, Massachusetts
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1956· 1 entry
And were supervised by Edris Rice-Wray and Celso-Ramón García
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1955· 1 entry
In part because there was an existing network of 67 birth control clinics serving low-income women on the island
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1953· 2 entries
To dramatically expand the scope of the research with a 50-fold increase in funding from McCormick
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And then three different progestins in 1954
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1952· 1 entry
Sanger told her friend Katharine McCormick about Pincus and Chang's research
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1951· 1 entry
Margaret Sanger met Pincus at a dinner hosted by Abraham Stone, the director of the Margaret Sanger Research Bureau and medical director and vice president of the Planned Parenthood Federation of America (PPFA), and proc
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1944· 1 entry
Pincus co-founded the Worcester Foundation for Experimental Biology in Shrewsbury, Massachusetts
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1939· 1 entry
Awarded Guggenheim Fellowship (1939).
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1903· 1 entry
Born 1903-04-09.
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